Cell Outage Detection and Compensation in Two-Tier Heterogeneous Networks

Table 1

Simulation parameters configuration.

Simulation parameters	Value
	Macrocell	Picocell
Cellular layout	19 cells	4 picos/cell
User numbers	20 users/cell	10 users/pico
Bandwidth	5 MHz	5 MHz
Pass loss model	𝐿=128.1+37.6log10𝑅	𝐿=140.7+36.7log10𝑅
Preference eNodeB transmit power	46 dBm	30 dBm
Problematic eNodeB transmit power	6 dBm	−10 dBm
Shadow-fading; standard deviation	8 dB	10 dB
Shadow-fading correlation	0.5/site
User placement	Randomly distributed
𝑄out threshold	−8.0 dB
𝑄in threshold	−6.0 dB
𝑇310 timer	100 ms