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셀 경계 단말의 성능 향상을 위한 회전성 빔 방향 패턴의 활용

Utilization of Rotational Beam Direction Patterns for Performance Enhancement of Cell Boundary UEs

  • Lee, Donghyun (Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University) ;
  • Sung, Wonjin (Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University)
  • 투고 : 2013.07.26
  • 발행 : 2013.11.25
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셀룰러 이동통신 시스템의 용량과 커버리지를 향상시키기 위한 많은 연구 결과들이 시스템에 적용되었지만, 셀 경계에서의 심각한 성능 열화는 여전히 단말 전송률의 더 나은 향상을 가로막는 주요한 요인으로 남아있다. 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project)의 LTE-A (Long Term Evolution-Advanced) 표준에서는 협력적 전송 (CoMP, coordinated-multipoint transmission reception)과 ICIC (inter-cell interference coordination)와 같은 진보된 기술들이 셀 경계 성능 열화 문제를 해결하기 위해 소개되었다. 본 논문에서는 다수개의 빔 방향 패턴 (BDP, beam direction pattern)을 활용하여 셀 경계 단말들의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 방안을 제안한다. 다수개의 빔 방향 패턴은 기지국에 설치된 복수 계층 안테나 어레이를 사용해 구현될 수 있다. 고정된 빔 패턴을 갖는 기존의 3섹터 안테나와 비교해서, 제안하는 방식은 다수개의 BDP들이 시간상에서 회전하면서 신호를 전송하게 된다. 이를 통해 셀 또는 섹터 경계에 위치하는 특정 단말들이 기지국으로부터 전체 전송 시간에 걸쳐 나쁜 성능의 신호를 수신하게 되는 상황을 억제함으로써, 해당 단말들의 수신 신호 품질을 향상시킬 수 있다. 성능 평가 결과는 제안하는 방식이 기존 3섹터 전송 방식에 비해 평균 단말 전송률 측면에서 하위 5% 단말에서 약 171% 향상된 성능을 나타냄을 보여준다.

Even though extensive research results have been applied to wireless cellular systems to improve their capacity and coverage, severe performance degradation experienced in cell boundary areas still remains as a major limiting factor to prohibit further improvement of user equipment (UE) throughput. In the Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) standard of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), Some advanced techniques have been introduced to overcome this "cell-edge problem", including coordinated multipoint transmission and reception (CoMP) and inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC). In this paper, we propose yet another strategy to improve the performance of low-tier UEs by using the concept of multiple beam direction patterns (BDPs). Such multiple BDPs can be implemented using multi-layer antenna arrays stacked vertically at base station (BS) sites to transmit signals in different main beam directions. In comparison to conventional three-sector antennas with a fixed beam pattern, the proposed methods makes signal transmission in a rotational fashion to significantly enhance the reception quality of UEs located near sector (or cell) edge areas, preventing the situation where certain UEs are marginally covered by the BS for the whole transmission time. Performance evaluation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional three-sector transmission by 171% in low 5% UEs in terms of the UE throughput.

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