OFDMA femtocells: A self-organizing approach for frequency assignment

Abstract

This work presents 2 novel approaches for the self-organization of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) femtocells, in which the femtocell is able to dynamically sense the air interface and tune its sub-channel allocation in order to reduce inter-cell interference and enhance system capacity. In the sensing phase, these techniques make use of either messages broadcast by the femtocells or measurements reported by the users, while in the tuning phase, they provide a good solution for the frequency assignment problem. Results shows that it is recommend to use information collected at the user position (measurement reports), when devising self-organization algorithms for tuning the parameters of femtocells.