Small-cells radio resource management based on Radio Environmental Maps

Recent advances in cognitive radio have identified the small-cells among the most promising future wireless networking scenarios. Utilizing radio context information, small-cells should perform the most optimal radio resource management (RRM) to maximize performances and minimize inter-cell interference. Radio Environmental Maps (REM) data: empirical propagation models, active transmitters' locations, up-to-date interference levels, statistical channels occupancies, are especially beneficial in these scenarios. The proposed demonstration aims to showcase the benefits of using REM information in the small-cell optimization. The demonstration utilizes a modular/flexible REM prototype, performing a realtime REM data acquisition, processing and inference as input to an enhanced small-cell optimization.