Intercell Interference is the main issue limiting the capacity of modern OFDMA-based cellular networks. Recently, extensive research work has been focused on intercell interference coordination since it has been recognized as a key concept to achieve seamless levels of quality of service. Nevertheless, very often this problematic is addressed as a standalone issue. In this work, a novel channel state information feedback scheme is proposed aiming at improving the overall system performance when both channel state information and static interference coordination are jointly considered. By means of the proposed scheme, gains in terms of users throughput, cell edge performance and energy efficiency are achieved with respect to existing aperiodic LTE-based mechanisms without additional complexity.

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