@conference{536474574, author = "Ioannis N. Stiakogiannakis and Kaklamani, Dimitra I.", abstract = "Fractional frequency reuse for the downlink of multicellular WiMAX networks is examined in this work. Three different schemes are evaluated through simulations, including distance-based and SINR-based approaches, as well as a new scheme which is based on load-balancing between different reuse regions. The proposed load-balancing scheme overcomes the main weakness of the SINR-based approach, namely its inability to manage efficiently the available resources of both Reuse-1 and Reuse-3 zones, as their size varies. The simulation results exhibit a clearly better performance of the proposed algorithm compared to distance-based and SINR-based approaches. It is shown that the employment of fractional frequency reuse with the proposed load-balancing approach improves the performance of WiMAX networks in terms of a variety of metrics, such as blocking probability and achievable bit rate.", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium in Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)", doi = "10.1109/PIMRC.2010.5671728", pages = "2432–2437", title = "{F}ractional frequency reuse techniques for multi-cellular {W}i{MAX} networks", url = "http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp={\&}arnumber=5671728{\&}url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5671728", year = "2010", }