A grouped and proportional-fair subcarrier allocation scheme for multiuser OFDM systems

  • Qian Wang*
  • , Dan Xu
  • , Jing Xu
  • , Zhiyong Bu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new and rather simple grouped-subcarrier allocation algorithms with proportional fairness among users in downlink OFDM transmission. The proposed algorithm tries to minimize the required transmit power while satisfying the rate requirement and BER constraint of each user. Subcarrier and power allocation are performed in two steps. We are mainly focusing on the subcarrier allocation step. First subcarriers are grouped to reduce the computational complexity of the allocation algorithm. Then we employ proportional constraints in terms of rate ratios to assure each user to achieve the target data rate in advance. Simulation results show that this low complexity resource allocation scheme achieves better performance than the fixed frequency division approach and shows comparable performance compared to previously derived suboptimal resource distribution schemes. It is also shown that with rate constraints the capacity is distributed more fairly and rationally among users.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication25th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2006, IPCCC 2006
Pages97-101
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event25th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2006, IPCCC 2006 - Phoenix, AZ, United States
Duration: 10 Apr 200612 Apr 2006

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference
Volume2006

Conference

Conference25th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2006, IPCCC 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix, AZ
Period10/04/0612/04/06

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