Optimum power allocation for multiuser OFDM with arbitrary signal constellations

This paper formulates power allocation policies that maximize the region of mutual informations/nachievable in multiuser downlink OFDM channels. Arbitrary partitioning of/nthe available tones among users and arbitrary modulation formats, possibly different for/nevery user, are considered. Two distin...

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Autores: Lozano Solsona, Angel, Tulino, Antonia M., Verdú, Sergio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/16144
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/16144
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2008.060211
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Tractament del senyal
Comunicacions mòbils, Sistemes de
Ràdio -- interferències
Gaussian channels
Power allocation
Waterfilling
Mercury/waterfilling
Mutual information
MMSE
OFDM
Downlink
Descripción
Sumario:This paper formulates power allocation policies that maximize the region of mutual informations/nachievable in multiuser downlink OFDM channels. Arbitrary partitioning of/nthe available tones among users and arbitrary modulation formats, possibly different for/nevery user, are considered. Two distinct policies are derived, respectively for slow fading/nchannels tracked instantaneously by the transmitter and for fast fading channels known/nonly statistically thereby. With instantaneous channel tracking, the solution adopts the/nform of a multiuser mercury/waterfilling procedure that generalizes the single-user mercury//nwaterfilling introduced in [1, 2]. With only statistical channel information, in contrast,/nthe mercury/waterfilling interpretation is lost. For both policies, a number of limiting/nregimes are explored and illustrative examples are provided.