ENHANCEMENT OF INTERFERENCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES FOR FEMTOCELL

NETWORKS
MOHAMAD YUSOFF ALIAS, KHALID SHEIKHIDRIS MOHAMED ABDELGADIR, MARDENI ROSLEE
Centre for Wireless Technology (CWT), Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University
Problem Statement
The use of small cells become eminent when realising that
most of future data exchange is expected to originate from
indoor premises as well as the impressive signal quality
improvements as shown in Figure 1. In addition, the high
penetration and propagation losses of macrocell high
frequency signals caused by heavy constructions, and/or
areas with minimal communication demands. However,
concerns of interference related issues were raised due to
the arbitrary deployment of femtocells. Although
interference can be mitigated using power control methods,
interference alignment, and resource allocation approaches;
the complexity, rapid development, and increasing demands
of cellular networks set a limit to these classic approaches.
Figure 1: Interference Examples In Cross-tier And Co-tier Femtocell Networks

Objectives
This project proposes a beamforming with timed division
multiple access (TDMA) approach that limits the
transmissions to the desired users at different time slots
in-order to mitigate the probability of interference
occurrence. This is obtained by narrowing down the
beamwidth to achieve higher directivity towards the
desired users while the TDMA technique reduces the
concurrent reception possibility of nearby users as shown
Figure 2: Narrow beamwidth in Figure 2.

Process Flow
START END Results
The transmission for users is
defined using the association The performance of the TDMA beamforming guarantees excellent
index and the time slot index LOCATE SMALL ASSIGN TIME performance in comparison to the normal beamforming even in the
whereby the latter is set by CELLS SLOTS highest small density withing an area. The proposed approach achieves a
analysing the locations of all maximum throughput of about 255 Mbps and an outage probability
users and assigning the LOCATE USERS suppression to less than 5% as shown in Figure 4. These results promote
different time slots to users BEAMFORMING the project to be an efficient interference mitigation paradigm for suitable
IN SMALL CELLS
withing proximity zone to for next generation communication systems.
reduce the interference
GROUP USERS ASSOCIATE
probability as shown in
VIA LOCATIONS USERS
Figure 3.
Figure 3: Process Flow
Conclusion
The analytical and numerical evaluations show that the network
performance can fairly be improved in terms of interference and
outage reduction, spectral efficiency and throughput enhancement
which makes the project a catalyst in the area of small cells networks
and could be utilized in applications of future everything-to-
everything (E2E) communication etc. Figure 4: Simulation Results
Journal papers Collaborator
Acknowledgements
1. Mohamed, K. S., Alias, M. Y., Roslee, M. & M. Raji, Y. (2020) 1. PhD Graduate: Dr. Khalid Sheikhidris Mohamed,
This work is supported by
Towards green communication in 5G systems: Survey on Assistant Professor, Faculty of Telecommunication and
MMU GRA Scheme.
beamforming concept. IET Communications, pp. 1-13, Published Space Technology, Future University - Sudan,
online 10 December 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cmu2.12066. Khartoum, Sudan
2. Mohamed, K. S., Alias, M. Y., & Roslee, M. (2020) Interference Complete
Management Using Beamforming Techniques For Line-Of-Sight References
Femtocell Network. IEICE Transactions on Communications,
Vol.E103-B,No.8,pp881-887 Aug. 2020.
3. Mohamed, K. S., Alias, M. Y., & Roslee, M. (2019). Interference Complete list
Avoidance Using TDMA-Beamforming in Location Aware Small Cell of publications
Systems. Applied Sciences, 9(23), 4979.