This paper addresses the problem of cooperation in a multicell environment where base stations wish to jointly serve multiple users, under a constrained-capacity backhaul. Such a constraint limits, among other things, data sharing and network MIMO concepts need to be revised accordingly. More precisely, we focus on the downlink, and propose to use the backhaul to transmit several messages to ea...

Today’s society is driven by ever-growing information needs, which cause increased demand for ubiquitous and very high speedwireless communications. In search for the urgent need of improved coverage and capacity, cellular networks are currently undergoing amajor transformation from an architecture comprised of thoroughly planned macrocell base stations (MBSs) to a much more heterogeneous archi...

This deliverable provides the final definition and evaluation of novel MAC and RRM approaches for RANaaS and joint RAN/backhaul design. It shows how the WP3 approaches integrate into the iJOIN system design, and how they contribute to iJOIN’s key objectives. All candidate technologies are evaluated in common scenarios which reflect different network and deployment assumptions. An overall evalua...

Wireless mobile backhaul networks have been proposed as a substitute in cases in which wired alternatives are not available due to economical or geographical reasons. In this work, we study the location problem of base stations in a given region where mobile terminals are distributed according to a certain probability density function and the base stations communicate through microwave backhaul...

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Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Abdallah Bou Saleh Name of the doctoral dissertation Inband Relaying in Long Term Evolution-Advanced Networks Publisher School of Electrical Engineering Unit Department of Communications and Networking Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 32/2014 Field of research Communications Engineering Manuscr...

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