Distributed Interference Avoidance

In unplanned wireless deployments such as femtocells, interference is a major barrier to achieving high data rate. While there exist numerous methods for dealing with planned deployments (macrocells), there are very few effective methods for managing interference in unplanned scenarios. Additionally, most techniques of dealing with interference in unplanned deployments involve exchanging large amounts channel state information, which is infeasible to implement. In this paper, we introduce a distributed way of dealing with interference involving very little information exchange between nodes. We show that this method is very effective in reducing interference to a particular node through simulations.