Optimal adaptive modulation and coding with switching costs

Authors:
Arsalan Farrokh;Vikram Krishnamurthy;Robert Schober
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We present an optimal adaptive modulation and coding policy that minimizes the transmission latency and modulation/coding switching cost across a finite-state Markovian fading channel. We formulate the optimal tradeoff between transmission latency and modulation/coding switching cost as a discounted infinite horizon Markov Decision Problem (MDP). By exploiting special structures of the formulated MDP and under certain sufficient conditions, we show that optimal modulation and coding selection policies are monotone in the state variables. These monotone optimal policies are computationally inexpensive to implement and are scalable in terms of channel and switching cost parameters. Numerical results confirm the monotonicity and threshold-based structure of the optimal Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) selection policies under the proposed sufficient conditions.