A mutual-information based power allocation algorithm for multi-layer rate splitting scheme in tri-sectored wireless networks

Cell-edge users inevitably suffer from strong interference from adjacent cells, and consequently their throughput will decrease. Recent investigations show that the Han-Kobayashi (HK) rate splitting scheme is the best known strategy to mitigate the interference for a two-user interference channel. However, its receiver is too complicated to implement in practical systems. This paper takes the multi-layer rate splitting (MLRS) scheme as an alternative and proposes a new mutual-information based power allocation algorithm for the MLRS scheme. Simulation results for the scenarios of two cell-edge users show that the proposed power allocation algorithm brings two advantages. First, it can reduce the complexity of receivers for the MLRS scheme. Second, it can achieve performance comparable to the simple HK scheme in a two-user fading interference channel and provide about 39% gains in terms of average throughput, compared with a fixed frequency reuse 2 scheme, in a realistic tri-sectored wireless network.