Performance Enhancement Employing Vertical Beamforming for FFR Technique

This paper proposes a vertical beamforming concept to a cellular network employing Fractional Frequency Reuse technique including with cell sectorization. Two different beams are utilized in cell-center and cell-edge, separately. The proposed concept is validated through computer simulation in term of SINR and channel capacity. Also, comparison when utilizing horizontal and vertical beam formation is in focus. The obtained results indicate that the proposed concept can improve the performance of the cellular networks comparing with the one using horizontal beamforming.

Authors:

• P. Chaipanya
• P. Uthansakul
• M. Uthansakul

Keywords:

• Beamforming
• Fractional Frequency Reuse
• Inter- Cell Interference
• cell sectorization.

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