Downlink FTP Performance of Heterogeneous Networks for LTE-Advanced
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...It has been established that without proactive offloading and resource partitioning only limited performance gains can be achieved from the deployment of small cells [8]–[12]....
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...5They are referred as almost blank, since reference signals are still transmitted in these subframes which continue causing interference problems [11], [15]....
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...In [10], [11], downlink performance with different range expansion bias values has been studied for picocell deployments, and resource partitioning is proposed to combat with the detrimental effects of high interference observed at range-expanded PUEs....
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...For those reasons, 3GPP is introducing the concept of cell range expansion [5] through handover biasing and resource partitioning among macro and low power nodes....
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