Decentralized Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

Heterogeneous Cellular Network (HetNet) is a promising technology for 5th generation mobile networks (5G) that can potentially improve spatial resource reuse and extend coverage, therefore allowing it to achieve significantly higher data rates than single tier networks. However, the performance of HetNet is limited by co-channel (inter-UE, inter-cell) interference. Hence, resource allocation is carefully done in this paper to ensure that the likely loss in achievable data rate due to interference doesn't diminish the gain in the achievable data rate due to higher spatial reuse. The resources which we consider in this paper are the spatial resource (unit-beamformer) and the power resource. We formulate our distributed spatial resource allocation problem as a quadratic optimization problem with non-convex quadratic constraints and solved it by exploiting stationarity karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. While our proposed power resource allocation scheme is formulated as a convex optimization problem and is solved by exploiting karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. Simulation results of our proposed method, when compared with other existing methods show significant improvement.