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Background
LTE is designed for frequency reuse 1 (To maximize spectrum efficiency), which means that
all the neighbor cells are using same frequency channels and therefore there is no cell-planning to
deal with the interference issues
There is a high probability that a resource block scheduled to cell edge user, is also being
transmitted by neighbor cell, resulting in high interference, eventually low throughput or call drops
(see figure)
Traffic channel can sustain upto 10% of BLER in low SINR but control channels cannot.
Neighbor interference can result in radio link failures at cell edge.
Heterogeneous networks require some sort of interference mitigation, since pico-cells/femto
cells and macro-cells are overlapping in many scenarios