Abstract
The mobile femtocell (MFemtocell) is a new concept that has been recently proposed to be a potential wireless communication technology for next-generation cellular systems. The essence of MFemtocell lies in adopting the femtocell technology inside vehicles such as trains, buses, or private cars to provide better coverage and a good Internet experience while on the move. In this paper, we investigate the spectral and energy efficiency for the MFemtocell-Assisted network with different resource partitioning schemes. Closed-form expressions for the relationships between spectral efficiency and energy efficiency are derived for a link-level MFemtocell network. We also investigate the spectral efficiency for multiuser system-level MFemtocells with opportunistic scheduling schemes. Our analysis shows that MFemtocells can provide better spectral and energy efficiency compared with the direct transmission scheme.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3389-3400 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 10 Jun 2015 |
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| Publication status | Published - May 2016 |
Keywords
- energy efficiency
- Mobile femtocell
- resource partitioning schemes
- scheduling schemes
- spectral efficiency
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Applied Mathematics
