Remote Radio Head Scheduling in LTE‑Advanced Networks

Abstract

LTE-A network offers data rates up to 1 Gbps which is 10 × faster than LTE catering to growing demand of users. LTE improves user experience by reducing latency and increasing bandwidth efficiency. The emerging services and key enhancements such as Further Enhancement of Downlink Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO), Heterogeneous Networks, and Carrier Aggregation (CA) in LTE-A has improved performance of LTE-A networks. Scheduling optimization still remains one of the biggest challenges in high speed data transmission network. Scheduling in LTE-A networks are performed at various levels; User Equipment (UE), Serving Gateway (SGW), Air Interface and eNodeB. Remote Radio Head (RRH) is an extremely specialized device installed at antenna of eNodeB for optical to electrical signal conversion, amplification of signals and Uplink and Downlink Scheduling. Resource scheduling at Antenna of eNodeB module is constituted as a significant research optimization area. This paper proposes a soft computing based scheduler for RRH. Results of proposed technique are evaluated on Fairness Index, Throughput, Spectral Efficiency and Rank Indicator Distribution. The proposed algorithm aims to improve performance of scheduling. From experimental results, it is observed that proposed model succeeds to achieve significantly better performance as compared to state-of-art algorithms.