Energy Efficiency of Distributed Antenna Systems Using Fractional Frequency Reuse

M M Aldosari, K A Hamdi

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    Abstract

    This letter investigates the trade-off between the downlink ergodic spectral efficiency (ESE) and the energy efficiency (EE) of distributed antenna systems (DAS) by using a new mathematical approach. Maximum ratio transmission (MRT) and fractional frequency reuse (FFR) are applied and composite Nakagami- m fading and log-normal shadowing are considered. The performance evaluation of DAS in FFR mode using MRT is greatly simplified using the proposed analytical approach.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1985-1988
    Number of pages4
    JournalCommunications Letters, IEEE
    Volume19
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Nov 2015

    Keywords

    • Nakagami channels
    • antennas
    • energy conservation
    • frequency allocation
    • log normal distribution
    • Nakagami-m fading shadowing
    • distributed antenna systems
    • downlink ergodic spectral efficiency
    • energy efficiency
    • fractional frequency reuse
    • log-normal shadowing
    • maximum ratio transmission
    • Antenna arrays
    • Downlink
    • Fading
    • Interference
    • Signal to noise ratio
    • Transmitting antennas
    • Ergodic spectral efficiency
    • spectral efficiency

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