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Published in: The Journal of Supercomputing 7/2016

01-07-2016

Research on the communication method of mobile network shadow fading based on interference alignment algorithm

Authors: Wei Zhou, Su Yu

Published in: The Journal of Supercomputing | Issue 7/2016

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Abstract

As the wireless communication signal encounters obstacles in the communication process caused by shadow fading, traditional communication methods try to add more microcells. But microcells make co-channel interference increase, and the effect is not good. This paper presents a communication method of mobile network shadow fading based on interference alignment algorithm. By anti-jamming processing the wireless network communication signal in shaded areas, and adjusting the effective communication probability and the data traffic channel in shaded areas, it aims to optimize the communication in the shaded areas. Experimental results show that the improved interference alignment algorithm can avoid the defects of co-channel interference caused by inter-cell wireless spectrum resource-constrained nature and reduce the communication error rate.

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Metadata
Title
Research on the communication method of mobile network shadow fading based on interference alignment algorithm
Authors
Wei Zhou
Su Yu
Publication date
01-07-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
The Journal of Supercomputing / Issue 7/2016
Print ISSN: 0920-8542
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0484
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-016-1705-z

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