Spectrum Allocation and Power Control in Full-Duplex Ultra-Dense Heterogeneous Networks

A full-duplex ultra-dense network (FDUDN) has been envisioned as a promising network paradigm for spectrum efficiency enhancement. This paper presents a novel joint spectrum and power management scheme, which maximizes the total capacity of the FDUDN, under given quality-of-service and crosstier interference constraints. The proposed scheme is decomposed into inter-cell and intra-cell allocation. A novel approach, which performs initial capacity-maximization allocation and successive adjustment based on the constraints, is proposed for the allocation of the inter-cell subchannels. The inter-cell power control is formulated as a non-convex optimization problem, and variable substitution is used to transform it into a convex one. Furthermore, we solve this problem through a low-complexity heuristic scheme, which utilizes the water-filling theorem in inter-cell power allocation. Finally, a time-sharing relaxation method is adopted to solve the intra-cell subchannel allocation problem and reduce the computation complexity. The Computer simulation demonstrates the enhancement effect of the proposed scheme in terms of the capacity, spectrum efficiency, and power efficiency.