eICIC configuration of Downlink and Uplink Decoupling with SWIPT in 5G Dense IoT HetNets

Interference management and power transfer can provide a significant improvement over the 5th generation mobile networks (5G) dense Internet of Things (IoT) heterogeneous networks (HetNets). In this paper, we present a novel approach to simultaneously manage inferences at the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL), and to identify opportunities for power transfer and additional UL transmissions integrated with existing protocols and infrastructures for enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) protocol in dense IoT HetNets, while considering practical non-linear energy harvesting (EH) model. The design is formulated as the joint optimization of interference aware UL/DL decoupling, airtime resource allocation and energy transfer. The key insight of our algorithm is to translate the original, intractable joint-optimization problem into a problem space where a good approximate solution can be quickly found. We evaluate our scheme through theoretical analysis and simulation. The evaluation shows that our approach improves the system utility by over 20% compared to start-of-the-art in dense IoT HetNets. Compared to alternative schemes, our approach maintains the best user fairness and rate experience and can solve the problem in a fast and scalable way.