For broadband cellular access based on orthogonal frequency divisionmultiple access (OFDMA), fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is one ofthe key concepts for mitigating inter-cell interference and therebyoptimizing cell-edge performance. In standard FFR, the number of OFDMAsub-bands and the reuse factor are both fixed. Whereas this works wellfor an idealized cell pattern, it is neither directly applicable noradequate for real-life networks with very irregular cell layouts. Inthis paper, we generalize the standard FFR to allow for flexibilities inthe total number of sub-bands as well as the number of sub-bands ineach cell-edge zone, enabling network-adaptive FFR. Two powerassignment strategies that use fixed power per sub-band prior tosub-band allocation and apply cell-specific power derived from thenumber of sub-bands allocated to each cell-edge zone, respectively,are investigated. Optimization algorithms based on local search aredeveloped for sub-band allocation to maximize the cell-edgethroughput. Evaluations using networks with realistic radiopropagation conditions demonstrate the applicability of the generalizedand optimized FFR in performance engineering of OFDMA networks.
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