An Interference-Aware Resource-Allocation Scheme for Non-Cooperative Multi-Cell Environment

Abstract

Inter-cell interference cancellation has been investigated for several decades and has become an elementary technique for modern wireless networks. However, the existing interference cancellation mechanism rarely considers the historical channel variations and interference characteristics. In this paper, we propose an interference-aware prediction-based resource-allocation strategy to deal with multi-cell interference, where the historical noisy channel state and the acknowledgment feedback are fully utilized. Together with the predicted interference patterns, our proposed joint sub-channel allocation and rate selection mechanism can achieve better average throughput performance. Through the numerical as well as the prototyping results, we show that our proposed scheme is able to provide more than 9.7% and 8% average throughput improvement compared with many existing baselines.