Joint signal processing in femtocell based distributed antenna systems in high buildings

Temitope Alade, Huiling Zhu

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Abstract

In wireless systems, coverage and capacity is a major challenge especially in high buildings. The system performance is impaired by cochannel interference created due to the need to reuse the limited available spectrum in nearby floors. Each base station (BS) does not only receives signals from the desired user but also from cochannel interferers in the neighbouring floors, thereby limiting the coverage and capacity of the indoor networks. Joint processing of the received signal among cochannel receivers has drawn considerable attention in recent years due to its enormous benefits from an interference cancellation point of view. This paper proposes and investigates the uplink of a femtocell based distributed antenna systems (DAS) in high buildings where remote antenna units deployed (RAU) on each floor of the building are connected to femto BS. The femto BSs can cooperate through joint signal processing for all femtocells in order to estimate the received signal, reduce cochannel interference introduced by frequency reuse among the femtocells and maintain high spectral efficiency. Investigation and numerical results show remarkable gains especially when interference cancellation is employed at each cooperative femto BS, resulting in large capacity increase when compared with the traditional system with no interference cancellation technique.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference Fall, VTC2010-Fall - Proceedings
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference Fall, VTC2010-Fall - Ottawa, ON, Canada
Duration: 6 Sept 20109 Sept 2010

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
ISSN (Print)1550-2252

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference Fall, VTC2010-Fall
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityOttawa, ON
Period6/09/109/09/10

Keywords

  • Cooperative processing
  • Distributed antenna system
  • Femtocell
  • Frequency reuse

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