Handling Interference in Integrated HAPS-Terrestrial Networks through Radio Resource Management

TL;DR

This paper proposes a joint power and subcarrier allocation scheme for HAPS-terrestrial integrated networks to effectively manage interference, improve fairness, and enhance overall network performance.

Contribution

It introduces a novel max-min fairness optimization framework and a rapid iterative algorithm tailored for interference management in HAPS-terrestrial vHetNets.

Findings

The proposed algorithm outperforms conventional methods in simulations.

It achieves better fairness among users in integrated networks.

Numerical results demonstrate improved network efficiency.

Abstract

Vertical heterogeneous networks (vHetNets) are promising architectures to bring significant advantages for 6G and beyond mobile communications. High altitude platform station (HAPS), one of the nodes in the vHetNets, can be considered as a complementary platform for terrestrial networks to meet the ever-increasing dynamic capacity demand and provide sustainable wireless networks for future. However, the problem of interference is the bottleneck for the optimal operation of such an integrated network. Thus, designing efficient interference management techniques is inevitable. In this work, we aim to design a joint power-subcarrier allocation scheme in order to achieve fairness for all users. We formulate the max-min fairness (MMF) optimization problem and develop a rapid converging iterative algorithm to solve it. Numerical results validate the superiority of the proposed algorithm and show better performance over other conventional network scenarios.