Abstract
This paper studies cooperative techniques that rely on femtocell user diversity to improve the downlink communication quality of macrocell users. We analytically derive and evaluate the achievable performance of these techniques in the downlink of Rayleigh fading channels. We provide an approximation of both the bit-error rate (BER) and the data throughput that macrocell users receive with femtocell user cooperation. Using simulations, we show that under reasonable SNR values, cooperative schemes enhance the performances of macrocells by improving the BER, outage probability, and data throughput of macrocell users significantly when compared with the traditional, non-cooperative schemes.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 6644236 |
Pages (from-to) | 6488-6499 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cooperation
- Downlink throughout
- Femtocells
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Applied Mathematics