Scheduling and Power Allocation for Hybrid Access Cognitive Femtocells

This paper addresses the problem of resource and power allocation for hybrid access femtocells. We introduce a refund mechanism to incentivize femtocell basestations (FBSs) to serve macrocell users (MUEs) suffering from low signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) to enhance overall performance. Our goal is to guarantee quality of service for users, while allowing spectrum sharing between macrocell basestation (MBS) and the underlying FBSs. We exploit overheard user channel quality indicator (CQI) reports using different channel models in order to assess the interfered channel state and channel parameter distribution. We analyze the distribution of the SINR for both femtocell users and MUEs. Based on the analytical results, our solution decomposes the scheduling and power allocation problem into two sub-problems and tackles them sequentially. Using problem reduction/transformation, we convert the decomposed problems into well known reduced forms and provide solutions in accordance. Finally, we verify the presented results through simulations.

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