Downlink mobile OFDMA resource allocation with minimum user rate requests

Abstract

The problem of resource allocation (RA) in a downlink OFDMA system with minimum user rate requests is examined under the realistic scenario of partial (imperfect) channel state information (CSI) at the base station. The challenge in this setting is the non-zero probability of outage events which may lead to significant performance degradation if algorithms assuming perfect CSI are utilized. In this paper the statistical description of the partial CSI is incorporated for deriving an (optimal) RA algorithm as the solution of an appropriate constrained optimization problem. Simplifications of the algorithm are utilized for significant complexity reduction with the additional property of allowing the system to adapt on-the-fly to time-varying minimum user rate requests.