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Resource allocation for outage performance in heterogeneous networks: a matching game approach

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In heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), the deployed small cell base stations share the same spectrum resource with that of macro base station, which causes cross-tier interferences and the performance depreciation of the system. This paper investigates the downlink outage performance of HCNs and its resource allocation problem to mitigate interferences. Specifically, we first derive closed-form expressions of overall outage probability of the system. Then, the resource allocation problem is proposed to reduce the outage probability of HCNs. This problem is formulated as a matching game, and a stable matching is considered to be the solution. Finally, to address this matching problem, a distributed algorithm is proposed which can find a stable matching. Both analytical results and simulations show that the proposed algorithm improves the overall performance of HCNs.

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This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) under Grants 2015AA01A703 and 2014AA01A704, the Research Project of Jiangsu Province under Grants BK20130019 and BE2015156, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61372101, 6153101, 61671144 and U1404615, the Open Funds of State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves under Grant K201504, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2015M571637, the natural science research project of universities in Jiangsu Province under Grant 16KJB510008, the Natural Science Foundation of State Grid Corporation of China under Grant 2015-0615-2298, and the Scientific Research Foundation of Graduate School of Southeast University under Grant 3204006707.

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    Haibo Dai, Chunguo Li, Yongming Huang & Luxi Yang

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Dai, H., Song, K., Li, C. et al. Resource allocation for outage performance in heterogeneous networks: a matching game approach. Wireless Netw 24, 1873–1883 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-016-1438-1

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