A User-Centric Frequency Reuse in Non-full Interference Cellular Networks

Inspired by the subject of performance enhancement of users located at the edge of cells in cellular networks, this paper studies a centralized frequency reuse scheme depending on the link quality of users within the Voronoi cell of the serving base station (BS) for the homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP) network. To quantify how much a user experiencing performance degradation, we consider that each cell is partitioned into multiple regions based on the strength of the signal to interference ratio. In our model, a given resource block (RB) is allocated to one user in a cell and cannot be shared by another user in this cell. The RB is divided into multiple subchannels and the user of interest uses only one of the multiple sub-channels, the mapping depending on the region in which the user belongs, letting a part of the RB unused to reduce the interference to the other cells. This scenario implies that the interfering set of BS depends on the coverage probability of the typical user. We tightly approximate the interfering BS set as a thinned version of the original PPP depending on the probability of coverage of each type of user. Results show that the scheme increases the network’s global coverage probability and enhances spectral efficiency by comparing the known fractional frequency reuse scheme.