Cognitive Interference Management in Heterogeneous Femto-Macro Cell Networks

In this work, we propose a cognitive interference management scheme for heterogeneous cellular wireless networks (LTE-A and WiMAX) with macrocells and femtocells (that operate in a closed-access mode). The scheme presented allocates resources (in time and frequency) and transmission opportunities to the macro/femtocells in the network by considering their potential to cause interference at each others' associated user equipments (UEs). We study the efficacy of the proposed scheme using a LTE-A system level simulator and compare with frequency reuse techniques and no interference management scenarios. We observe that our scheme significantly enhances average cell-edge UE throughput (5\%-tile throughput) with some degradation in overall sum throughput. Also we observe that the scheme decreases the probability of cell-edge users in the system experiencing degraded SINR.