Time Reversal-based Transmissions with Distributed Power Allocation for Two-Tier Networks

TL;DR

This paper explores a green HetNet model using time reversal for femtocells and zero-forcing beamforming for macrocells, demonstrating energy savings and effective power loading strategies through simulations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel HetNet model with TR-based femtocells and distributed power allocation, highlighting energy efficiency improvements over traditional methods.

Findings

TR outperforms zero-forcing in energy savings for femtocells

Distributed power loading enhances power efficiency under limited backhaul info

Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed strategies

Abstract

Radio pollution and power consumption problems lead to innovative development of green heterogeneous networks (HetNet). Time reversal (TR) technique which has been validated from wide- to narrow-band transmissions is evaluated as one of most prominent linear precoders with superior capability of harvesting signal energy. In this paper, we consider a new HetNet model, in which TR-employed femtocell is proposed to attain saving power benefits whereas macrocell utilizes the beam-forming algorithm based on zero-forcing principle, over frequency selective channels. In the considered HetNet, the practical case of limited signaling information exchanged via backhaul connections is also taken under advisement. We hence organize a distributed power loading strategy, in which macrocell users are treated with a superior priority compared to femtocell users. By Monte-Carlo simulation, the obtained results show that TR is preferred to zero-forcing in the perspective of beamforming technique for femtocell environments due to very high achievable gain in saving energy, and the validity of power loading strategy is verified over multipath channels.