Performance improvement of fixed wireless access networks by conjunction of dual polarization and time domain radio resource allocation technique

This paper considers the impact of dual polarization adoption on the performance for a fixed wireless access (FWA) network. The major limiting factor of the performance in these systems is co-channel interference (CCI) originating from intracell and intercell concurrent transmissions. The proposed framework combines an appropriate time domain radio resource allocation technique with a dual polarization pattern to mitigate CCI and enhance the obtained signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR). Simulation results present the performance of the proposed framework against various terrain categories and sector antenna characteristics. Copyright 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.