Claudio Rosa

TL;DR: This paper evaluates in detail the impact of a FPC scheme on the SINR and interference distributions in order to provide a sub-optimal configuration tuned for both interference- and noise-limited scenarios.

TL;DR: This article presents a summary of the supported CA scenarios as well as an overview of the CA functionality for LTE-Advanced with special emphasis on the basic concept, control mechanisms, and performance aspects and demonstrates how CA can be used as an enabler for simple yet effective frequency domain interference management schemes.

TL;DR: It is shown that frequency-domain packet scheduling can provide a gain of around 35% in both throughput and coverage over opportunistic time-domain only scheduling and by using an equal throughput scheduler coverage can be improved by 100% at the expense of a 5% loss in average cell throughput in comparison with the proportional fair scheduler.

TL;DR: An overview of the DC feature as standardized in Release 12 of the 3GPP specifications is given, and detailed system-level simulations are demonstrated how DC can improve end-user throughput and mobility performance.

TL;DR: This article recommends the use of enhanced interference coordination, or eICIC, to mitigate cross-tier interference and ensure sufficient offload of users from macro to small cells in LTE-Advanced heterogeneous network scenarios with macro and small cells.