毕业论文外文原文及译文ofdm系统研究与仿真.doc

南昌大学科学技术学院毕业设计（论文）任务书

题目： OFDM系统研究与仿真
专业： 通信工程 指导教师： 谢芳娟
学科部： 信息学科部 学号： 7023812007
班级： 通信工程121 姓名： 陈浩

一、外文原文
Evolution Towards 5G Multi-tier Cellular WirelessNetworks:An Interference Management Perspective
Ekram Hossain, Mehdi Rasti, Hina Tabassum, and Amr Abdelnasser
Abstract—The evolving fifth generation (5G) cellular wireless networks are envisioned to overcome the fundamental challenges of existing cellular networks, e.g., higher data rates, excellent end-to-end performance and user-coverage in hot-spots and crowded areas with lower latency, energy consumption and cost per information transfer. To address these challenges, 5G systems will adopt a multi-tier architecture consisting of macrocells, different types of licensed small cells, relays, and device-to-device (D2D) networks to serve users with different quality-of-service (QoS) requirements in a spectrum and energy-efficient manner. Starting with the visions and requirements of 5G multi-tier networks, this article outlines the challenges of interference management (e.g., power control, cell association) in these networks with shared spectrum access (i.e., when the different network tiers share the same licensed spectrum). It is argued that the existing interference management schemes will not be able to address the interference management problem in prioritized 5G multitier networks where users in different tiers have different priorities for channel access. In this context, a survey and qualitative comparison of the existing cell association and power control schemes is provided to demonstrate their limitations for interference management in 5G networks. Open challenges are highlighted and guidelines are provided to modify the existing schemes in order to overcome these limitations and make them suitable for the emerging 5G systems.
Index Terms—5G cellular wireless, multi-tier networks, interference management, cell association, power control.

I. INTRODUCTION
To satisfy the ever-increasing demand for mobile broadband communications, the IMT-Advanced (IMT-A) standards have been ratified by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in November 2010 and the fourth generation (4G)
wireless communication systems are currently being deployed worldwide. The standardization for LTE Rel-12, also known as LTE-B, is also ongoing and expected to be finalized in 2014. Nonetheless, existing wireless systems will not be able to deal with the thousand-fold increase in total mobile broadband data [1] contributed by new applications and services such as pervasive 3D multimedia, HDTV, VoIP, gaming, e-Health, and Car2x communication. In this context, the fifth generation (5G) wireless communication technologies are expected to attain 1000 times higher mobile data volume per unit area,
10-100 times higher number of connecting devices and user data rate, 10 times longer battery life and 5 times reduced latency [2]. While for 4G networks the single-user average
data rate is expected to be 1 Gbps, it is postulated that cell data rate of the order of 10 Gbps will be a key attribute of 5G networks.
5G wireless networks are expected to be a mixture of network tiers of different sizes, transmit powers, backhaul connections, different radio access technologies (RATs) that
are accessed by an unprecedented numbers of smart and heterogeneous wireless devices. This architectural enhancement along with the advanced physical communications technology such as high-order spatial multiplexing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications will provide higher aggregate capacity for more simultaneous users, or higher level spectral efficiency, when compared to the 4G networks. Radio resource and interference management will be a key research challenge in multi-tier and heterogeneous 5G cellular networks. The traditional methods for radio resource and interference management (e.g., channel allocation, power control, cell association or load balancing) in single-tier networks (even some of those developed for two-tier networks) may not be efficient in this environment and a new look into the interference management problem will be required.
First, the article outlines the visions and requirements of 5G cellular wireless systems. Major research challenges are then highlighted from the perspective of interference management when the different network tiers share the same radio spectrum. A comparative analysis of the existing approaches for distributed cell association and power control (CAPC) is then provided followed by a discussion on their limitations for
5G multi-tier cellular networks. Finally, a number of suggestions are provided to modify the existing CAPC schemes to overcome these limitations.

II. VISIONS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR 5G MULTI-TIER
CELLULAR NETWORKS
5G mobile and wireless communication systems will require a mix of new system concepts to boost the spectral and energy efficiency The visions and requirements for 5G wireless systems are outlined below.
·Data rate and latency: For dense urban areas, 5G networks are envisioned to enable an experienced data rate of 300 Mbps and 60 Mbps in downlink and uplink, respectively, in 95% of locations and time [2]. The end-to- end latencies are expected to be in the order of 2 to 5 milliseconds. The detailed requirements for different scenarios are listed in [2].
·Machine-type Communication (MTC) devices: The number of traditional human-centric wireless devices with Internet connectivity (e.g., smart phones, super-phones, tablets) may be outnumbered by MTC devices which can be used in vehicles, home appliances, surveillance devices, and sensors.
·Millimeter-wave communication: To satisfy the exponential increase in traffic and the addition of different devices and services, additional spectrum beyond what was previously allocated to 4G standard is sought for. The use of millimeter-wave frequency bands (e.g., 28 GHz and 38 GHz bands) is a potential candidate to overcome the problem of scarce spectrum resources since it allows transmission at wider bandwidths than conventional 20 MHz channels for 4G systems.
·Multiple RATs: 5G is not about replacing the existing technologies, but it is about enhancing and supporting them with new technologies [1]. In 5G systems, the existing RATs, including GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), HSPA+ (Evolved High-Speed Packet Access), and LTE, will continue to evolve to provide a superior system performance. They will also be accompanied by some new technologies (e.g., beyond
LTE-Advanced).
·Base station (BS) densification: BS densification is an effective methodology to meet the requirements of 5G wireless networks. Specifically, in 5G networks, there will be deployments of a large number of low power nodes, relays, and device-to-device (D2D) communication links with much higher density than today’s macrocell networks.
Fig. 1 shows such a multi-tier network with a macrocell overlaid by relays, picocells, femtocells, and D2D links. The adoption of multiple tiers in the cellular network architecture will result in better performance in terms of capacity, coverage, spectral efficiency, and total power consumption, provided that the inter-tier and intratier
interferences are well managed.
·Prioritized spectrum access: The notions of both trafficbased and tier-based Prioriti
-es will exist in 5G networks. Traffic-based priority arises from the different requirements of the users (e.g., reliability and latency requirements, energy constraints), whereas the tier-based priority is for users belonging to different network tiers. For example, with shared spectrum access among macrocells and femtocells in a two-tier network, femtocells create “dead zones” around them in the downlink for macro users. Protection should, thus, be guaranteed for the macro users. Consequently, the macro and femtousers play the role of high-priority users (HPUEs) and lowpriority users (LPUEs), respectively. In the uplink direction, the macrocell users at the cell edge typically transmit with high powers which generates high uplink interference to nearby femtocells. Therefore, in this case, the user priorities should get reversed. Another example is a D2D transmission where different devices may opportunistically access the spectrum to establish a communication link between them provided that the interference introduced to the cellular users remains below a given threshold. In this case, the D2D users play the role of LPUEs whereas the cellular users play the role of HPUEs.
·Network-assisted D2D communication: In the LTE Rel- 12 and beyond, focus will be on network controlled D2D communications, where the macrocell BS performs control signaling in terms of synchronization, beacon signal configuration and providing identity and security management [3]. This feature will extend in 5G networks to allow other nodes, rather than the macrocell BS, to have the control. For example, consider a D2D link at the
cell edge and the direct link between the D2D transmitter UE to the macrocell is in deep fade, then the relay node can be responsible for the control signaling of the D2D
link (i.e., relay-aided D2D communication).
·Energy harvesting for energy-efficient communication: One of the main challenges in 5G wireless networks is to improve the energy efficiency of the battery-constrained wireless devices. To prolong the battery lifetime as well as to improve the energy efficiency, an appealing solution is to harvest energy from environmental energy sources (e.g., solar and wind energy). Also, energy can be harvested from ambient radio signals (i.e., RF energy harvesting) with reasonable efficiency over small distances. The havested energy could be used for D2D communication or communication within a small cell. In this context, simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is a promising technology for 5G wireless networks. However, practical circuits for harvesting energy are not yet available since the conventional receiver architecture is designed for information transfer only and, thus, may not be optimal for SWIPT. This is due to the fact that both information and power transfer operate with different power sensitivities at the receiver (e.g., -10dBm and -60dBm for energy and information receivers, respectively) [4]. Also, due to the potentially low efficiency of energy harvesting from ambient radio signals, a combination of different energy harvesting technologies may be required for macrocell communication.

III. INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES IN 5G
MULTI-TIER NETWORKS
The key challenges for interference management in 5G multi-tier networks will arise due to the following reasons which affect the interference dynamics in the uplink and downlink of the network: (i) heterogeneity and dense deployment of wireless devices, (ii) coverage and traffic load imbalance due to varying transmit powers of different BSs in the downlink, (iii) public or private access restrictions in different tiers that lead to diverse interference levels, and (iv) the priorities in accessing channels of different frequencies and resource allocation strategies. Moreover, the introduction of carrier aggregation, cooperation among BSs (e.g., by using coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP)) as well as direct communication among users (e.g., D2D communication) may further complicate the dynamics of the interference. The above factors translate into the following key challenges.
·Designing optimized cell association and power control (CAPC) methods for multi-tier networks: Optimizing the cell associations and transmit powers of users in the uplink or the transmit powers of BSs in the downlink are classical techniques to simultaneously enhance the system performance in various aspects such as interference mitigation, throughput maximization, and reduction in power consumption. Typically, the former is needed to maximize spectral efficiency, whereas the latter is required to minimize the power (and hence minimize the interference to other links) while keeping the
Fig. 1. A multi-tier network composed of macrocells, picocells, femtocells, relays, and D2D links. Arrows indicate wireless links, whereas the dashed lines denote the backhaul connections.
desired link quality. Since it is not efficient to connect to a congested BS despite its high achieved signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), cell association should also consider the status
of each BS (load) and the channel state of each UE. The increase in the number of available BSs along with multi-point transmissions and carrier aggregation provide multiple degrees of freedom for resource allocation and cell-selection strategies. For power control, the priority of different tiers need also be maintained by incorporating the quality constraints of HPUEs. Unlike downlink, the transmission power in the uplink depends on the user’s battery power irrespective of the type of BS with which users are connected. The battery power does not vary significantly from user to user; therefore, the problems of coverage and traffic load imbalance may not exist in the uplink. This leads to considerable
asymmetries between the uplink and downlink user association policies. Consequently, the optimal solutions for downlink CAPC problems may not be optimal for the uplink. It is therefore necessary to develop joint optimization frameworks that can provide near-optimal, if not optimal, solutions for both uplink and downlink. Moreover, to deal with this issue of asymmetry, separate uplink and downlink optimal solutions are also useful as far as mobile users can connect with two different BSs for uplink and downlink transmissions which is expected to be the case in 5G multi-tier cellular networks [3].
·Designing efficient methods to support simultaneous association to multiple BSs: Compared to existing CAPC schemes in which each user can associate to a single
BS, simultaneous connectivity to several BSs could be possible in 5G multi-tier network. This would enhance the system throughput and reduce the outage ratio by effectively utilizing the available resources, particularly for cell edge users. Thus the existing CAPC schemes should be extended to efficiently support simultaneous association of a user to multiple BSs and determine under which conditions a given UE is associated to which BSs
in the uplink and/or downlink.
·Designing efficient methods for cooperation and coordination among multiple tiers: Cooperation and coordination among different tiers will be a key requirement to mitigate interference in 5G networks. Cooperation between the macrocell and small cells was proposed for LTE Rel-12 in the context of soft cell, where the UEs are allowed to have dual connectivity by simultaneously connecting to th