@conference {3017,
	title = {Fractional Frequency Reuse in Integrated Femtocell/Macrocell Environments},
	booktitle = {11th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2013), Saint - Petersbourg, Russia},
	year = {2013},
	month = {June 5-7},
	pages = { 229 - 240},
	abstract = {<p>Femtocells have a strong potential for increasing the efficiency, cell coverage and network capacity of next-generation mobile networks. In Long Term Evolution technology, the adaptation of Fractional Frequency Reuse techniques has been proposed in order to overcome the co-channel interference and augment the total throughput of the network. In this work, we propose a Fractional Frequency Reuse method that on the one hand calculates the optimal inner region radius and frequency allocation of a macrocell and on the other hand assigns frequency resources to the femtocells in order to mitigate the co-channel interference. We apply this method in an integrated femtocell/macrocell environment and evaluate it based on the optimization of three metrics, depending on the network operator?s needs.</p>
},
	keywords = {FFR},
	author = {Christos Bouras and Andreas Papazois and Vasileios Kokkinos and Georgia Tseliou}
}
