Agnieszka Szufarska

Future Mobile Communication Networks: Challenges in the Design and Operation

This article highlights particular challenges inherent in the design and operation of future mobile communications systems This paper also discusses the various degrees of freedom involved, and points out which design paradigms appear most promising and which major fields of future research remain.

Cell-Specific Uplink Power Control for Heterogeneous Networks in LTE

This paper provides an assessment of 3GPP standardized LTE/LTE-A uplink power control procedures in case of a co-channel operation of different types of base stations. Especially the case of femtocell deployment with an overlaying macrocell is considered. Imperfections of the currently accepted procedures in case of such networks are pointed and a modified solution is proposed. It is shown that in case of heterogeneous networks more cell-specific configuration can lead to 8% and 14% performance improvements in capacity and coverage of local cells respectively, without harm for overlying macrocells. The evaluation of the proposed scheme has been done on case of a macro and femto co-channel deployment, but should be also valid for other cell types.

A flexible 5G frame structure design for frequency-division duplex cases

A 5G frame structure designed for efficient support of users with highly diverse service requirements is proposed. It includes support for mobile broadband data, mission-critical communication, and massive machine communication. The solution encompasses flexible multiplexing of users on a shared channel with dynamic adjustment of the transmission time interval in coherence with the service requirements per link. This allows optimizing the fundamental tradeoffs between spectral efficiency, latency, and reliability for each link and service flow. The frame structure is based on in-resource physical layer control signaling that follows the corresponding data transmission for each individual user. Comparison against the corresponding LTE design choices shows attractive benefits.

Interference Mitigation Methods for LTE-Advanced Networks with Macro and HeNB Deployments

This paper is focused on interference mitigation for LTE-Advanced multi-layer networks with macro and HeNBs. The autonomous HeNB power setting in the downlink is studied for different HeNB access methods. Our studies show that using the so-called escape carrier configuration and autonomous HeNB power setting is a promising strategy for enabling gradual introduction of user-deployed HeNBs in existing macro-layer networks.