Enhancing coordinated multi-point joint reception with dynamic bandwidth allocation

Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) Joint Reception (JR) is a vital technology to mitigate uplink inter-cell interference (ICI) and can be facilitated by the centralized radio access network (C-RAN). In C-RAN architecture, base stations (BSs) are decoupled into the central unit (CU) and the distributed units (DUs). Meanwhile, a fronthaul (FH) is employed to connect CU and DUs. However, FH constructed by the time division multiplexing passive optical network (TDM-PON) significantly affects the performance of JR. The inherent polling mechanism of TDM-PON results in the asynchronous forwarding of JR data, which leads to high JR latency and a large amount of storage consumption. To alleviate the problem, we presented a novel dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) scheme, which classifies network data as JR and non-JR data and optimizes the data forwarding order of different types and DUs. A heuristic algorithm called Rearrange Sub-timeslot DBA (RS-DBA) was proposed to implement the DBA scheme. Simulation results indicate the proposed RS-DBA algorithm can reduce the average latency of JR data and storage resources consumption. In addition, the RS-DBA can make a better tradeoff between latency and efficiency. •The uplink joint reception (JR) in mobile fronthaul is discussed.•The latency and storage consumption due to JR is analyzed mathematically.•A heuristic algorithm-assisted dynamic bandwidth allocation scheme is proposed.•The proposal improves the JR performance in terms of latency and storage consumption.•The proposal achieves a better tradeoff between the latency and efficiency of JR.