Chapter 13

Power Control, Scheduling, and Interference Handling

This chapter deals with some radio-resource-management issues, including uplink power control, downlink and uplink scheduling, and different means for inter-cell interference coordination to handle/avoid severe interference between different cells including cells of different layers in so-called heterogeneous network deployments.

13.1 Uplink Power Control

Uplink power control for LTE is the set of algorithms and tools by which the transmit power for different uplink physical channels and signals are controlled to ensure that they, if possible, are received at the cell site with appropriate power. This means that the transmission should be received with sufficient power to allow for ...

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