NDLI: Small-Cell Traffic Balancing Over Licensed and Unlicensed Bands

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Feilu Liu Bala, E. Erkip, E. Beluri, M.C. Rui Yang
Copyright Year	1967
Abstract	The Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has recently started standardizing the “licensed-assisted access using LTE” for small cells, which is referred to as dual-band femtocell (DBF) in this paper, which uses the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) air interface in both the licensed and unlicensed bands based on the LTE carrier aggregation feature. Alternatively, the Small Cell Forum introduced the integrated femto-WiFi (IFW) small cell, which simultaneously accesses both the licensed band (via cellular interface) and the unlicensed band (via WiFi interface). In this paper, a practical algorithm for IFW and DBF to automatically balance their traffic in licensed and unlicensed bands, based on the real-time channel, interference, and traffic conditions of both bands, is described. The algorithm considers the fact that some “smart” devices (sDevices) have both cellular and WiFi radios, while some WiFi-only devices (wDevices) may only have WiFi radio. In addition, the algorithm considers a realistic scenario where a single small-cell user may simultaneously use multiple sDevices and wDevices via either the IFW or the DBF in conjunction with a wireless local area network. The goal is to maximize the total user satisfaction/utility of the small-cell user, while keeping the interference from small cells to macrocells below predefined thresholds. The algorithm can be implemented at the radio link control or the network layer of the IFW and DBF small-cell base stations. Results demonstrate that the proposed traffic-balancing algorithm applied to either IFW or DBF significantly increases the sum utility of all macrocell and small-cell users, compared with the current practices. Finally, various implementation issues of IFW and DBF are addressed.
Sponsorship	IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
Starting Page	5850
Ending Page	5865
Page Count	16
File Size	1779161
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189545
Volume Number	64
Issue Number	12
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	IEEE 802.11 Standards Interference Long Term Evolution Wireless LAN Downlink Throughput Femtocells unlicensed band LTE-Unlicensed LTE-U Licensed-Assisted Access using LTE traffic balancing femtocell 802.11 Femtocell licensed-assisted access using Long-Term Evolution (LTE) LTE-unlicensed (LTE-U)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Applied Mathematics Automotive Engineering Computer Networks and Communications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Aerospace Engineering

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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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