System and method for dynamic inter-cell interference coordination

• US 10,085,154 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2012
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Liqing, Ma, Jianglei
• Primary Examiner(s): Kading, Joshua
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ahmed, Atique
• Application Number:
  US13/654,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20140105122A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,169 Days
• Field of Search: 455449, 455501, 370329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/06 Hybrid resource partitioning, e.g. channel borrowing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/27 between access points

Abstract

A system including a cell controller and a method for dynamic inter-cell interference coordination based on a strong interference neighbor relationship table (SI-NRT) are provided. In the method, the cell controller generates a SI-NRT based on a predefined threshold value and interferences from a plurality of neighbor cells. The cell controller determines whether a cell needs additional high power frequency band and determines whether there is available high power frequency band in the plurality of neighboring cells based on the SI-NRT.

Claims

1. A method for assigning high power frequency bands in a communication system, comprising:

generating, in a cell controller having a processor, a strong interference neighbor relationship table (SI-NRT) for a cell based on a predefined threshold value and interferences from a plurality of neighbor cells, wherein the interferences are based on interference measurement reports of all users in the cell and all users in the plurality of neighbor cells;

determining, in the cell controller, whether the cell needs an additional high power frequency band based on a ratio of traffic loads between cell edge users (CEUs) and cell center users (CCUs);

dynamically allocating, in the cell controller, a high power frequency band to the cell in accordance with the following conditions being satisfied;

the cell needs the high power frequency band, and

the high power frequency band is assigned to, but is not used by, any of the plurality of neighbor cells, and the high power frequency band is not used by any cell whose SI-NRT includes the cell,

wherein one color of a six-color fractional frequency reuse is dynamically allocated to the cell, and wherein two colors of the six-color fractional frequency reuse are dynamically allocated to one of the plurality of neighbor cells, in accordance with the interference measurement reports and traffic loads of the cell and the plurality of neighbor cells.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the cell controller generates the SI-NRT based on a ratio between a maximum interference level and each of a plurality of interference levels from the plurality of neighbor cells.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the SI-NRT consists of cells that have the ratio greater than the predefined threshold value.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the SI-NRT for cell i consists of cells that meet the following condition:

5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining, in the cell controller, whether there is an available high power frequency band in the plurality of neighbor cells based on the SI-NRT for cell i comprises at least one of the following:

determining whether a high power frequency band candidate is used by the plurality of neighbor cells;

determining whether the high power frequency band candidate is used by the cells in the SI-NRT(i); and

determining whether any cell having cell i in its SI-NRT is using the high power frequency band candidate.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

assigning the high power frequency band to the cell i when the assigning does not change its own SI-NRT and any SI-NRT of the plurality of neighbor cells.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of neighbor cells are all neighbor cells of the cell, the SI-NRT refers to a subset of the plurality of neighbor cells, and the cell controller generates the SI-NRT based on interferences from the subset satisfying the predefined threshold value.

20. The method of claim 1, the dynamically allocating comprising dynamically allocating the high power frequency band to the cell when the high power frequency band is not used by any one of the plurality of neighbor cells referred in the SI-NRT of the cell and the high power frequency band is not used by any one of the plurality of neighbor cells whose SI-NRT includes the cell.

7. A cell controller, comprising:

a processor coupled with a non-transient storage medium;

the non-transient storage medium storing a set of instructions for assigning high power frequency bands in a communication system, the set of instructions to direct the processor to perform acts of;

generating a strong interference neighbor relationship table (SI-NRT) for a cell based on a predefined threshold value and interferences from a plurality of neighbor cells, wherein the interferences are based on interference measurement reports of all users in the cell and all users in the plurality of neighbor cells;

determining whether the cell needs additional high power frequency band based on a ratio of traffic loads between cell edge users (CEUs) and cell edge users (CCUs);

dynamically allocating a high power frequency band to the cell in accordance with the following conditions being satisfied;

the cell needs the high power frequency band, and

the high power frequency band is assigned to, but is not used by, any of the plurality of neighbor cells, and the high power frequency band is not used by any cell whose SI-NRT includes the cell,

wherein one color of a six-color fractional frequency reuse is dynamically allocated to the cell, and wherein two colors of the six-color fractional frequency reuse are dynamically allocated to one of the plurality of neighbor cells, in accordance with the interference measurement reports and traffic loads of the cell and the plurality of neighbor cells.

8. The cell controller of claim 7, wherein the cell controller is configured to generate the SI-NRT based on a ratio between a maximum interference level and each of a plurality of interference levels from the plurality of neighbor cells.

9. The cell controller of claim 8, wherein the SI-NRT consists of cells that have the ratio greater than the predefined threshold value.

10. The cell controller of claim 9, wherein the SI-NRT for cell i consists of neighbor cells that meet the following condition:

11. The cell controller of claim 10, wherein determining whether there is available high power frequency band in the plurality of neighbor cells based on the SI-NRT for cell i comprises at least one of the following:

determining whether a high power frequency band candidate is used by the plurality of neighbor cells;

determining whether the high power frequency band candidate is used by the cells in the SI-NRT(i); and

determining whether any cell having cell i in its SI-NRT is using the high power frequency band candidate.

12. The cell controller of claim 10, wherein the set of instructions further directs the processor to perform acts of:

assigning the high power frequency band to the cell i when the assigning does not change its own SI-NRT and any SI-NRT of the plurality of neighbor cells.

13. A communication system, comprising:

a plurality of cells communicating with each other, each cell of the plurality of cells comprising a cell controller having a processor configured for;

generating a strong interference neighbor relationship table (SI-NRT) for the each cell based on a predefined threshold value and interferences from a plurality of neighbor cells, wherein the interferences are based on interference measurement reports of all users in the cell and all users in the plurality of neighbor cells;

determining whether the each cell needs an additional high power frequency band allocated among one of the plurality of neighbor cells based on a ratio of traffic loads between cell edge users (CEUs) and cell center users (CCUs);

determining whether there is available a high power frequency band in the plurality of neighbor cells based on the SI-NRT;

dynamically allocating an available high power frequency band to the each cell that is also allocated to, but not used by, one of the plurality of neighbor cells,

wherein one color of a six-color fractional frequency reuse is dynamically allocated to one of the plurality of the cells, and two colors of the six-color fractional frequency reuse another one of the plurality of cells, in accordance with the interference measurement reports and traffic loads of the plurality of cells.

14. The communication system of claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to generate the SI-NRT based on a ratio between a maximum interference level and each of a plurality of interference levels from the plurality of neighbor cells.

15. The communication system of claim 14, wherein the SI-NRT consists of cells that have the ratio greater than the predefined threshold value.

16. The communication system of claim 15, wherein the SI-NRT for cell i consists of cells that meet the following condition:

17. The communication system of claim 16, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine whether a high power frequency band candidate is used by the plurality of neighbor cells;

determine whether the high power frequency band candidate is used by the cells in the SI-NRT(i); and

determine whether any cell having cell i in its SI-NRT is using the high power frequency band candidate.

18. The communication system of claim 16, wherein the processor is configured to assign the high power frequency band to the cell i when assigning the high power frequency band does not change its own SI-NRT and any SI-NRT of the plurality of neighbor cells.