Imperfect Digital-Fiber-Optic-Link-Based Cooperative Distributed Antennas With Fractional Frequency Reuse in Multicell Multiuser Networks

The achievable throughput of the entire cellular area is investigated, when employing fractional frequency reuse techniques in conjunction with realistically modeled imperfect optical-fiber-aided distributed antenna systems (DASs) operating in a multicell multiuser scenario. Given fixed total transmit power, substantial improvement of the cell-edge area´s throughput can be achieved without reducing the cell center´s throughput. The cell edge´s throughput supported in the worst-case direction is significantly enhanced by the cooperative linear transmit processing technique advocated. Explicitly, a cell-edge throughput of η = 5 bit/s/Hz may be maintained for an imperfect optical fiber model, regardless of the specific geographic distribution of the users.