Uplink fractional power control for cell-free wireless networks

Comunicació presentada a: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) celebrada del 20 al 24 de maig de 2019 a Shanghai, Xina.This paper proposes a power control policy for the uplink of cell-free wireless networks. Such policy, which generalizes the fractional power control used extensively in cellular networks, relies only on large-scale quantities, is fully distributed, and features a single control parameter. By adjusting this parameter, the SIR distribution experienced by the users can be compressed or expanded, effecting a tradeoff between average performance and fairness.Work supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme (MDM-2015-0502) and by the European Research Council (grant agreement 694974)