Cooperative Cross-Layer Resource Allocation for Self-Healing in Interworking of WLAN and Femtocell Systems
Yuchen Zhou, Jian Chen, Yonghong Kuo · IEEE Communications Letters · 2016
We investigate resource allocation for self-healing in wireless local area network (WLAN) and femtocell interworking system to compensate abrupt network failure. To enable self-healing for the interworking system, we propose a cooperative cross-layer resource allocation scheme based on multiple medium access control layer and physical layer techniques of the two networks. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can ensure the fairness between the utilizations of the downlink and the uplink in the WLANs, and improves the system utility while compensating the network failure.