Resource Management and Cell Planning in LTE Systems

Future 4G cellular systems will address the need for capacity increase for the support of diverse services. It is therefore of fundamental importance to design innovative 4G cellular systems able to support the increase in the traffic demand. This Chapter deals with LTE systems and the design of a new reuse scheme, called Soft Frequency Reuse (SFR), that is able to increase the cell capacity that is studied, considering the impact of different scheduling schemes and of different user mobility patterns. A consistent SFR scenario has been implemented in both Ns-3 and OMNeT++ environments. An analytical approach is proposed to evaluate the cell capacity with SFR that has been validated by means of Ns-3 simulations. Finally, OMNeT++ simulations have permitted to highlight the significant impact of the scheduling scheme and user mobility on cell capacity; different mobility patterns have been taken into account.

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