Joint Clusterization and Power Allocation for Cloud Radio Access Networks

Abstract

In this paper, the cloud radio access network (CRAN) is considered to extend the transmission coverage via the distributed deployment of large-scale remote radio units (RRUs). However, this type of structure can induce considerable computational loadings due to the centralized management mechanisms. To reduce the complexity incurred in the C-RAN architecture, the clusterization technique is designed to categorize those RRUs into several groups. For the purpose of enhancing energy efficiency (EE) as well as the consideration of computational complexity, the joint clusterization and power allocation schemes are proposed to obtain the better tradeoff under the quality-of-service (QoS) requirement for each user equipment (UE). Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms can provide better performance gain than the existing method.