SINR-ordered Cross Link Interference Control Scheme for Dynamic TDD in 5G System

Abstract

Dynamic time division duplexing (TDD) is discussed as one of the key features to increase radio resource utilization in an ultra dense network (UDN) for the 5th-generation (5G) standard. However, overall system performance can be critically degraded by the cross-link interference (CLI) between base stations (BSs) or between user equipments (UEs) under dynamic TDD. In this paper, we propose a new means of reducing the CLI in the dynamic TDD system. It is a hybrid approach that combines both static and dynamic features into a simple SINR-ordered arrangement, so that UE location-specific interference level can be naturally handled. It has been shown that the proposed hybrid TDD scheme outperforms the conventional TDD schemes without compromising the lower 5% UE performance, implying that it is more effective in reducing the CLI.