Pseudo-handover based power and subchannel adaptation for two-tier femtocell networks

The two-tier femtocell network is comprised of a central macrocell underlaid with shorter range femtocell hotspots. Due to the universal frequency reuse, this kind of new system architecture brings about urgent problems of the interference management and the resource allocation. Motivated by these problems, the following contributions are made in this paper: 1) a novel joint power and subchannel allocation problem for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) downlink based femtocells is formulated on the premise of minimizing Femto BSs' radiating interference; 2) a pseudo-handover based scheduling information exchange method is proposed to avoid the collision interference; 3) an iterative scheme of subchannel allocation and power control is proposed to solve the formulated problem, which is an NP-complete problem. Through simulations and comparisons with three other schemes, the proposed scheme shows better performance in reducing interference and the Femto BS's transmit power, and improving the spectrum efficiency.