Optimal base stations planning for Coordinated Multi-Point system

Abstract Through decreasing inter-cell interferences, CoMP (Coordinated Multi-Point) can enhance system capacity and spectral efficiency of cell-edge users significantly. BSs (Base stations) are the front-end accesses of CoMP and their planning influences the overall performance of the system directly. Different from the traditional cellular network, the coverage of BSs in CoMP always overlaps with each other to some degree. In order to investigate the BSs planning for CoMP, this paper builds two optimization models to obtain the location and the number of the BSs. A joint optimization algorithm is proposed to solve models, in which the methodologies of mesh adaptive direct search and successive elimination have been used. Numerical results show that the proposed models can effectively reduce the total transmission power and the number of BSs without losing the quality of service for users, which verifies the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms and the inherent advantage of CoMP.

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