Performance evaluation of CoMP coordinated scheduling over different backhaul infrastructures: A real use case scenario

This work studies how cell information distribution for Coordinated Scheduling in Cooperative Multi Point Transmission might be affected by the backhaul infrastructure. Several CoMP schemes are investigated and a novel OSPF based advertisement protocol for CoMP information distribution is proposed. Star topology with centralization at macro cell is shown to be the most convenient choice in terms of both convergence delay and deployment costs. The proposed protocol represents a feasible solution preserving network configurability and management.