An optimization approach to joint cell and power allocation in multicell networks
2011 (English)In: IEEE Int Conf Commun, 2011, p. 5963591-Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Since the seminal paper by Knopp and Humblet that showed that the system throughput of a single cell system is maximized if only one terminal transmits at a time, there has been a large interest in opportunistic communications and its relation to various fairness measures. On the other hand, in multicell systems there is a need to allocate transmission power such that some overall utility function is maximized typically under fairness constraints. Furthermore, in multicell systems the degree of resource allocation freedom includes the serving cell selection that allows for load balancing and thereby the efficient use of radio resources. In this paper we formulate the joint serving cell selection (link selection) and power allocation problem as an optimization task whose purpose is to maximize either the minimum user throughput or the multicell sum throughput. Both the max-min and the max-throughput problems are non-polynomial hard and we therefore propose heuristic solution approaches. We present numerical results that give new and valuable insights into the trade off between fair and sum throughput optimal joint resource allocation strategies.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2011. p. 5963591-
Series
IEEE International Conference on Communications, ISSN 0536-1486
Keywords [en]
Cell selection, Fairness constraints, Fairness measures, Heuristic solutions, Max-min, Multi-cell networks, Multicell, Multicell system, Numerical results, Opportunistic communications, Optimization approach, Optimization task, Power allocations, Radio resources, Resource allocation strategies, Single cell systems, System throughput, Trade off, Transmission power, Utility functions, Polynomials, Resource allocation, Throughput, Optimization
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-151158DOI: 10.1109/iccw.2011.5963591Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-80051984809ISBN: 9781612849553 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-151158DiVA, id: diva2:747242
Conference
2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2011 Workshops, 5-9 June 2011, Kyoto, Japan
Note
QC 20140916
2014-09-162014-09-152024-03-18Bibliographically approved