Radio Resource Allocation In Relay Based Ofdma Cellular Networks

Do you need to design efficient wireless communications systems? This unique text provides detailed coverage of radio resource allocation problems in wireless networks and the techniques that can be used to solve them. Covering basic principles and mathematical algorithms, and with a particular focus on power control and channel allocation, you will learn how to model, analyze, and optimize the allocation of resources in both physical and data link layers, and for a range of different network types. Both established and emerging networks are considered, including CDMA and OFDMA wireless networks, relay-based wireless networks, and cognitive radio networks. Numerous exercises help you put knowledge into practice, and provide the tools needed to address some of the current research problems in the field. This is an essential reference whether you are a graduate student, researcher or industry professional working in the field of wireless communication networks.

This book allows readers to gain an in-depth understanding of resource allocation problems in wireless networks and the techniques used to solve them.

Tackling problems from the least complicated to the most, Resource Allocation in Uplink OFDMA Wireless Systems provides readers with a comprehensive look at resource allocation and scheduling techniques (for both single and multi-cell deployments) in uplink OFDMA wireless networks relying on convex optimization and game theory to thoroughly analyze performance. Inside, readers will find topics and discussions on: Formulating and solving the uplink ergodic sum-rate maximization problem Proposing suboptimal algorithms that achieve a close performance to the optimal case at a considerably reduced complexity and lead to fairness when the appropriate utility is used Investigating the performance and extensions of the proposed suboptimal algorithms in a distributed base station scenario Studying distributed resource allocation where users take part in the scheduling process, and considering scenarios with and without user collaboration Formulating the sum-rate maximization problem in a multi-cell scenario, and proposing efficient centralized and distributed algorithms for intercell interference mitigation Discussing the applicability of the proposed techniques to state-of-the-art wireless technologies, LTE and WiMAX, and proposing relevant extensions Along with schematics and figures featuring simulation results, Resource Allocation in Uplink OFDMA Wireless Systems is a valuable book for?wireless communications and cellular systems professionals and students.

The combination of relay transmission with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technique is deemed as the candidate for the fourth generation (4G) wireless networks. This thesis addresses the resource allocation problem in OFDM based relay networks. Different scenarios of relay networks are considered, e.g., the multi-user relay networks, the multi-relay networks, and the cognitive radio (CR) relay networks. The resource management strategies are developed to analyse: how to optimally distribute available resources among different users, how resource optimization enhances the performance under cooperative communication, how to maximize the lifetime of multi-hop wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and how to improve CR transmission without degrading the performance of the primary network? For each relay transmission scenario, two or more resources are optimized to enhance the system performance under various constraints. The resources include: the power allocation at the source terminal, the power allocation at the relay nodes, the sub-carrier allocation among different users, and the sub-carrier matching over different hops. Multi-user transmission adopts orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technique and is subject to separate power constraint at each terminal. Initially, the resource management issue in multi-user uplink relay transmission is discussed. Then, the similar resource allocation problem is solved when OFDMA multi-user system operates under the bidirectional relay transmission. The multi-relay dual hop transmission is optimized under different transmission schemes, specifically, the non-orthogonal transmission where all the terminals transmit simultaneously in the second time slot and the time division multiple access (TDMA) based transmission where each relay transmits in the pre-defined time slot. The resource allocation in CR relay networks is considered which ensures that the interference caused by the secondary network is not harmful to the primary system. Convex optimization techniques are exploited to solve the problems for each relay transmission and the near optimal solutions are developed. Further, several suboptimal algorithms are also designed to reduce the computational complexity.

In this thesis, we explore radio resource management algorithms for OFDMA based cellular networks. Firstly, we combine the OFDMA technology with multiple antennas technology and handle the resource allocation problem for the MISO-OFDMA systems. We take care of the fairness issue among users to prevent the users, which have good channel conditions, to obtain most of the system resources. Thus, we propose a fairness aware resource allocation algorithm and compare it with the existing schemes. Next, we enhance the conventional cellular network structure with mobile relays and examine relay selection and resource allocation algorithms for the OFDMA-based mobile relay enhanced cellular networks. We propose a novel relaying frame structure with efficient resource management algorithms in order to reveal the opportunities of the mobile relays. Then, we consider the queue-lengths of the users and propose a queue and channel aware joint relay selection and resource allocation algorithm to use the system resources efficiently. Finally, we combine mobile relaying and offloading technologies in order to overcome the capacity and coverage problems of the conventional cellular networks. We focus on the radio resource management problem for the OFDMA-based mobile relay-enhanced heterogenous cellular networks that contains multiple radio access technologies. We propose a network interface selection algorithm that consider the bandwidth availability information of each network in order to prevent sending the users to overloaded networks.

Providing an extensive overview of the radio resource management problem in femtocell networks, this invaluable book considers both code division multiple access femtocells and orthogonal frequency-division multiple access femtocells. In addition to incorporating current research on this topic, the book also covers technical challenges in femtocell deployment, provides readers with a variety of approaches to resource allocation and a comparison of their effectiveness, explains how to model various networks using Stochastic geometry and shot noise theory, and much more.

Next generation wireless communication networks are expected to provide ubiquitous high data rate coverage and support heterogeneous wireless services with diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. This translates into a heavy demand for the spectral resources. In order to meet these requirements, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) has been regarded as a promising air-interface for the emerging fourth generation (4G) networks due to its capability to combat the channel impairments and support high data rate. In addition, OFDMA offers flexibility in radio resource allocation and provides multiuser diversity by allowing subcarriers to be shared among multiple users. One of the main challenges for the 4G networks is to achieve high throughput throughout the entire cell. Cooperative relaying is a very promising solution to tackle this problem as it provides throughput gains as well as coverage extension. The combination of OFDMA and cooperative relaying assures high throughput requirements, particularly for users at the cell edge. However, to fully exploit the benefits of relaying, efficient relay selection as well as resource allocation are critical in such kind of network when multiple users and multiple relays are considered. Moreover, the consideration of heterogeneous QoS requirements further complicate the optimal allocation of resources in a relay enhanced OFDMA network. Furthermore, the computational complexity and signalling overhead are also needed to be considered in the design of practical resource allocation schemes. In this dissertation, we conduct a comprehensive research study on the topic of radio resource management for relay-based cooperative OFDMA networks supporting heterogeneous QoS requirements. Specifically, this dissertation investigates how to effectively and efficiently allocate resources to satisfy QoS requirements of 4G users, improve spectrum utilization and reduce computational complexity at the base station. The problems and our research achievements are briefly outlined as follows. Firstly, a QoS aware optimal joint relay selection, power allocation and subcarrier assignment scheme for uplink OFDMA system considering heterogeneous services under a total power constraint is proposed. The relay selection, power allocation and subcarrier assignment problem is formulated as a joint optimization problem with the objective of maximizing the system throughput, which is solved by means of a two level dual decomposition and subgradient method. The computational complexity is finally reduced via the introduction of two suboptimal schemes. The performance of the proposed schemes is demonstrated through computer simulations based on OFDMA network. Numerical results show that our schemes support heterogeneous services while guaranteeing each user's QoS requirements with slight total system throughput degradation. Secondly, we investigate the resource allocation problem subject to the satisfaction of user QoS requirements and individual total power constraints of the users and relays. The throughput of each end-to-end link is modeled considering both the direct and relay links. Due to non-convex nature of the original resource allocation problem, the optimal solution is obtained by solving a relaxed problem via two level dual decomposition. Numerical results reveal that the proposed scheme is effective in provisioning QoS of each user's over the conventional resource allocation counterpart under individual total power constraints of the users and relays . Lastly, decentralized resource allocation schemes are proposed to reduce the computational complexity and CSI feedback overhead at the BS. A user centric distributed (UCD) scheme and a relay centric distributed (RCD) scheme are proposed, where the computation of the centralized scheme is distributed among the users and relays, respectively. We also proposed suboptimal schemes based on simplified relay selection. The suboptimal schemes can be combined with the distributed schemes to further reduce of signalling overhead and computational complexity. Numerical results show that our schemes guarantee user's satisfaction with low computational complexity and signalling overhead, leading to preferred candidates for practical implementation. The research results obtained in this dissertation can improve the resource utilization and QoS assurance of the emerging OFDMA networks.

Providing an extensive overview of the radio resource management problem in femtocell networks, this invaluable book considers both code division multiple access femtocells and orthogonal frequency-division multiple access femtocells. In addition to incorporating current research on this topic, the book also covers technical challenges in femtocell deployment, provides readers with a variety of approaches to resource allocation and a comparison of their effectiveness, explains how to model various networks using Stochastic geometry and shot noise theory, and much more.