Kuang-Hsun LinCho-Hsin TsaiJen-Wei ChangYu-Chieh ChenFu-Ming YehHUNG-YU WEI2019-10-312019-10-31201724059595https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85033401193&doi=10.1016%2fj.icte.2017.04.005&partnerID=40&md5=d23ce4f26c113cdac6036aa22e7c7ad2Since mobile traffic has been growing recently, the deployment of indoor small cells has become an attractive solution to enhance coverage. However, the increasing density of cells makes inter-cell interference more considerable. In this paper, we propose a max-throughput Interference Avoidance (MTIA) centralized algorithm to improve the system's throughput. Based on signaling and reports, a central controller connected to each base station can properly turn off base stations that may induce a relatively strong interference, and thus increase SINR. We implemented the MTIA algorithm in an LTE TDD network simulation and showed that MTIA effectively reduces inter-cell interference and improves the system's throughput. © 2017 The Korean Institute of Communications Information SciencesIndoor; Interference management; Self-organized network; Small celljournal article10.1016/j.icte.2017.04.0052-s2.0-85033401193