Cross-Layer Scheduling for OFDMA Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks

被引:80
作者
Ng, Derrick Wing Kwan [1 ]
Schober, Robert [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ British Columbia, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
关键词
Amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying; cross-layer scheduling; distributed resource allocation; dual decomposition; imperfect channel-state information (CSI); multiuser diversity (MUD); RESOURCE-ALLOCATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; DIVERSITY; STRATEGIES; CAPACITY; FAIRNESS; TRADEOFF; SYSTEMS;
D O I
10.1109/TVT.2009.2039814
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
In this paper, we consider cross-layer scheduling for the downlink of amplify-and-forward (AF) relay-assisted orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) networks. The proposed cross-layer design takes into account the effects of imperfect channel-state information (CSI) at the transmitter (CSIT) in slow fading. The rate, power, and subcarrier allocation policies are optimized to maximize the system goodput ( in bits per second per hertz successfully received by the users). The optimization problem is solved by using dual decomposition, resulting in a highly scalable distributed iterative resource-allocation algorithm. We also investigate the asymptotic performance of the proposed scheduler with respect to (w.r.t.) the numbers of users and relays. We find that the number of relays should grow faster than the number of users to fully exploit the multiuser diversity ( MUD) gain. On the other hand, diversity from multiple relays can be exploited to enhance system performance when the MUD gain is saturated due to noise amplification at the AF relays. Furthermore, we introduce a feedback-reduction scheme to reduce the computational burden and the required amount of CSI feedback from the users to the relays. Simulation results confirm the derived analytical results for the growth of the system goodput and illustrate that the proposed distributed cross-layer scheduler only requires a small number of iterations to achieve practically the same performance as the optimal centralized scheduler, even if the information exchanged between the base station (BS) and the relays in each iteration is quantized, and the proposed CSI feedback reduction scheme is employed.
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页数:16
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