Subcarrier allocation for OFDMA relay networks with proportional fair constraint

  • Authors:
  • Bin Fan;Wenbo Wang;Yicheng Lin;Lin Huang;Kan Zheng

  • Affiliations:
  • Wireless Signal Processing and Network Lab, Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communication, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing, China;Wireless Signal Processing and Network Lab, Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communication, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing, China;Wireless Signal Processing and Network Lab, Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communication, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing, China;Orange Labs, France Telecom R&D, Beijing, China;Wireless Signal Processing and Network Lab, Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communication, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper considers subcarrier allocation for the multihop orthogonal frequency division multiple-access (OFDMA) broadcast networks consisting of one source, multiple destinations, and one amplify-and-forward (AF) relay. In this paper, proportional fair (PF) based subcarrier allocation is discussed to get a tradeoff between the system transmission rate and fairness. First, the problem is formulated as an optimization problem with prohibitive complexity. Second, by analyzing the optimal solution for the subcarrier allocation problem without PF constraint, two suboptimal schemes are proposed. The simulation results indicate that with the same fairness performance, the proposed schemes achieve considerable capacity gain compared with the conventional PF scheduling method which is extended simply from the single-hop system.