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面向未来LTE蜂窝网络下行链路的高级协调波束形成

Advanced Coordinated Beamforming for the Downlink of Future LTE Cellular Networks

George C. Alexandropoulos, Paul Ferrand, Jean-Marie Gorce, Constantinos B. Papadias

摘要:

传统频带中的现代蜂窝网络是众所周知的干扰受限的,特别是在城市地区,其中基站被部署在彼此非常接近的位置。长期演进(LTE)的最新版本结合了用于协调下行链路传输的特征,作为管理干扰的有效手段。最近的现场试验结果和理论研究的联合传输(JT)协调多点(CoMP)计划的性能显示,然而,他们的收益并不像最初预期的那样高,尽管大的协调开销。已知这些方案对协调基站之间的同步或信息交换中的缺陷以及不协调的干扰非常敏感。在这篇文章中,我们回顾了最近先进的协调波束成形(CB)方案作为替代方案,需要更少的开销比JT CoMP,同时在现实条件下实现良好的性能。通过规定,在越来越感兴趣的某些LTE场景中,不协调干扰构成了CoMP技术整体性能的主要因素,我们在此评估了现有技术CB对不协调干扰的弹性。我们还描述了这些技术如何利用当前蜂窝网络的最新规范,以及当我们考虑标准化反馈和协调时,它们如何执行。这使我们能够确定一些关键的障碍和研究方向,以解决LTE向移动通信的未来发展。

英文摘要:

Modern cellular networks in traditional frequency bands are notoriously interference-limited especially in urban areas, where base stations are deployed in close proximity to one another. The latest releases of Long Term Evolution (LTE) incorporate features for coordinating downlink transmissions as an efficient means of managing interference. Recent field trial results and theoretical studies of the performance of joint transmission (JT) coordinated multi-point (CoMP) schemes revealed, however, that their gains are not as high as initially expected, despite the large coordination overhead. These schemes are known to be very sensitive to defects in synchronization or information exchange between coordinating bases stations as well as uncoordinated interference. In this article, we review recent advanced coordinated beamforming (CB) schemes as alternatives, requiring less overhead than JT CoMP while achieving good performance in realistic conditions. By stipulating that, in certain LTE scenarios of increasing interest, uncoordinated interference constitutes a major factor in the performance of CoMP techniques at large, we hereby assess the resilience of the state-of-the-art CB to uncoordinated interference. We also describe how these techniques can leverage the latest specifications of current cellular networks, and how they may perform when we consider standardized feedback and coordination. This allows us to identify some key roadblocks and research directions to address as LTE evolves towards the future of mobile communications.

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