TY - GEN
T1 - The Potential of Flexible UL/DL Slot Assignment in 5G Systems
AU - Catania, Davide
AU - Gatnau, Marta
AU - Cattoni, Andrea Fabio
AU - Frederiksen, Frank
AU - Berardinelli, Gilberto
AU - Mogensen, Preben
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 5th Generation (5G) small cells are expected to satisfy the increasing demand for wireless data traffic. In the presence of large scale dense and randomly deployed cells, autonomous and distributed configuration mechanisms are highly desirable. However, small cells typically serve a small number of users, such that sudden traffic imbalances between downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) are expected in the new 5G system. We exploit the flexibility of time-division duplex (TDD) to deal with such imbalances by adapting swiftly to instantaneously varying traffic needs. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm to deal with these varying traffic requirements. We also exploit the availability of interference rejection capable receivers. Simulation results show that in the presence of the aforementioned features, we can approximately double the session throughput and halve the packet delay in a large number of cases.
AB - 5th Generation (5G) small cells are expected to satisfy the increasing demand for wireless data traffic. In the presence of large scale dense and randomly deployed cells, autonomous and distributed configuration mechanisms are highly desirable. However, small cells typically serve a small number of users, such that sudden traffic imbalances between downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) are expected in the new 5G system. We exploit the flexibility of time-division duplex (TDD) to deal with such imbalances by adapting swiftly to instantaneously varying traffic needs. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm to deal with these varying traffic requirements. We also exploit the availability of interference rejection capable receivers. Simulation results show that in the presence of the aforementioned features, we can approximately double the session throughput and halve the packet delay in a large number of cases.
U2 - 10.1109/VTCFall.2014.6966202
DO - 10.1109/VTCFall.2014.6966202
M3 - Article in proceeding
SN - 978-1-4799-4449-1
T3 - I E E E V T S Vehicular Technology Conference. Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2014 IEEE 80th
PB - IEEE
T2 - IEEE 80th vehicular technology conference
Y2 - 14 September 2014 through 17 September 2014
ER -