In order to deal with the serious inter-cell interference, the enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) [6] and heterogeneous coordinated multiple point transmission and reception (CoMP) [7, 8] are proposed in 3GPP.
Towards the fifth generation (5G) of wireless/mobile broadband communication, many advanced key technologies are going to be implemented, including spectrum sharing management, exploiting the Cloud-RAN (CRAN) and mobile clouds concepts as well as heterogeneous network coordination, in order to meet the demand for larger bandwidth, higher data rate up to Gbit/s and seamless connection access [1-3].
This paper focuses on robust nonlinear coordination of heterogeneous uncertain second-order multi-agent systems subject to directed communication topologies.
In their paper "Interference coordination of heterogeneous LTE systems using remote radio heads", J. Kim, D. Lee, and W. Sung consider the problem of co-channel interference (CCI) mitigation in LTE-advanced heterogeneous networks (HetNets).
Based on the designed experiments and corresponding morphologies of the resultants, the formation mechanism is proposed as coordination-assisted heterogeneous dissolution (CHD).
In the multi-robot domain, we address both communication and distributed coordination within a heterogeneous team of autonomous robots.
Sinha and Sarmah (2010) developed a multiple pricing schedule to influence ordering polices of a group of heterogeneous buyers to participate in coordination plan provided by a supplier.
If agents are heterogeneous (as we assume), then coordination needs differ and a competitive process begins among sponsors of alternative orders.
Even when sufficient resources (spectrum and time) are available, coexistence problems arise because of lack of coordination due to heterogeneous carrier sense granularity [3] and operating conditions not explicitly considered by the standards.
In particular the following aspects are considered: the design of interference and radio resource management algorithms, the analysis of the energy efficiency and power control issues in heterogeneous networks, the concept of coordination in small cell networks, key backhaul aspects of HetNets, deployment issues and overall management strategies.
