Interference Level Control in Mobile WiMAX Uplink System

Abstract

Interference over thermal noise (IoT) level control is crucial to system performance and link quality in interference limited scenarios, especially for cell edge users. This paper proposes a simple and novel technique for IoT control by adopting the concept of load control where load is defined as the total interference impacting on neighbor sectors. The proposed technique is able to control IoT level accurately and is very robust against impairments in practical implementations, while minimizing the required signaling overhead.