Distributed subchannel assignment in an OFDMA relay

  • Authors:
  • Ari Hottinen;Tiina Heikkinen

  • Affiliations:
  • Radio Communications CTC, Nokia Research Center, Nokia Group, Finland;University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Performance evaluation methodologies and tools
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The paper studies a distributed OFDMA system in which the transmitting nodes (source and relay) have access to channel information and to some interference-related information. Distributed subchannel allocation is modelled as a noncooperative game where the players are the source nodes. Channel-aware source nodes opportunistically select their subchannels while a channel-aware relay node assigns the input subchannels at relay to appropriate output subchannels in a way that maximizes the sum of utilities in terms of signal-to-noise ratio. Numerical examples illustrate the performance of distributed subchannel assignment; opportunistic channel allocation implies a trade-off between the average capacity and fairness.