A Stochastic-Geometry Approach to Coverage in Cellular Networks with Multi-Cell Cooperation

—Multi-cell cooperation is a promising approach for mitigating inter-cell interference in dense cellular networks. Quantifying the performance of multi-cell cooperation is challenging as it integrates physical-layer techniques and network topologies. For tractability, existing work typically relies on the over-simplified Wyner-type models. In this paper, we propose a new stochastic-geometry model for a cellular network with multicell cooperation, which accounts for practical factors including the irregular locations of base stations (BSs) and the resultant path-losses. In particular, the proposed network-topology model has three key features: i) the cells are modeled using a Poisson random tessellation generated by Poisson distributed BSs, ii) multi-antenna BSs are clustered using a hexagonal lattice and BSs in the same cluster mitigate mutual interference by spatial interference avoidance, iii) BSs near cluster edges access a different sub-channel from that by other BSs, shielding ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Kaibin Huang, Jeffrey G. Andrews
• Keywords: Cellular Network, CORR 2011, Education, Multi-antenna Bss, Outage Probability