Power distribution algorithm based on game theory in the femtocell system

This paper studies the power control problem in femtocell system based on Nash non-cooperative game theory. It designs an utility function taking fem stations' transmit power as variable and relates it to the requirements of macro users' and fem users' signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR). The utility also takes the impact of fem stations' location into account and improves the fairness of non-cooperative game. On this basis, this paper proposes a distributed power control algorithm and proves the existence and uniqueness of Pareto optimal point. The simulation results show that the algorithm improves the convergence speed and system performance through improving users' SINR.     

认知无线网络中一种非合作博弈功率控制算法

针对现有的功率控制算法中存在的干扰问题和功率消耗过大问题,设计出一种新的效用函数,并根据此效用函数提出了一个基于非合作博弈的新的功率控制算法。首先,在效用函数中分别为信干噪比和功率设定了不同的代价因子,并将信道状态概念引入到代价因子里面,使其能够更加合理地控制用户,避免用户过度增加发射功率,同时减小了用户间的干扰;其次,证明了该算法纳什均衡的存在性和唯一性;最后,给出了所提算法的流程图。仿真结果表明,与Nash算法相比,在保证非授权用户服务质量( QoS)前提下,该算法功率消耗明显降低,并且具有较好的抗背景噪声性能;与K-G( Koskie-Gajic)算法相比,该算法保证了所有的用户的信干噪比满足上下限阈值要求,并且提高了系统容量。     

Multi-cell uplink power allocation game for user minimum performance guarantee in OFDMA systems

The multi-cell uplink power allocation problem for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA) cellular networks is investigated with the uplink transmission power allocation on each co-frequency subchannel being defined as a multi-cell non-cooperative power allocation game (MNPG). The principle of the design oftbe utility function is given and a novel utility function is proposed for MNPG. By using this utility function, the minimum signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) requirement of a user can be guaranteed. It can be shown that MNPG will converge to the Nash equilibrium and that this Nash equilibrium is unique. In considering the simulation results, the effect of the algorithm parameters on the system performance is discussed, and the convergence of the MNPG is verified. The performance of MNPG is compared with that of traditional power allocation schemes, the simulation results showing that the proposed algorithm increases the cell-edge user throughput greatly with only a small decrease in cell total throughput; this gives a good tradeoff between the throughput of cell-edge users and the system spectrum efficiency.     

New Relay Protocols with AMC Scheme for Throughput Enhancement in LTE-Advanced System

We propose an adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) scheme using relay protocols AF, DF and DMF. The AMC scheme is used for improving the throughput and reliability of a communication system, using different modulation and coding schemes. We analyze the performance of relay protocols with the AMC scheme and observe that relay protocols with the AMC scheme are capable of providing better average throughput at a lower signal to noise ratio (SNR) level as compared to the conventional scheme with no AMC. We perform Monte Carlo simulations based on 3GPP long term evolution-advanced parameters to prove the performance comparison of adaptive modulation and coding scheme (MCS) relay protocols with non-adaptive MCS relay protocols. The simulation results of the proposed system with adaptive MCS prove that among the amplify-and-forward (AF), decode-and-forward (DF) and de-modulate-and-forward (DMF), the DMF protocol performs best, at a lower SNR value and higher average throughput.     

A novel adaptive modulation and coding strategy based on partial feedback for enhanced MBMS network

The difference in link condition of broadcast/ multicast users and the limitation of uplink resource, make it difficult to utilize adaptive modulation and coding （AMC） in the enhanced multimedia broadcast and multicast service （E-MBMS） network. To obtain the improvement of system throughput, this study proposes an adaptive modulation and coding scheme based on partial feedback, by which only partial users whose channel qualities are lower than the system threshold need to make a response to the modulation coding scheme （MCS） adaptation procedure. By this investigation, an adaptive scheme can be introduced in the E-MBMS network. Both the theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed strategy, in which the performance is close to the ideal one and has a significant throughput improvement when compared with that of the fixed MCS transmission scheme.     

Joint Beamforming and Power Allocation for Cognitive MIMO Systems Under Imperfect CSI Based on Game Theory

The problem of joint beamforming and power allocation for cognitive multi-input multi-output systems is studied via game theory. The objective is to maximize the sum utility of secondary users (SUs) subject to the primary user (PU) interference constraint, the transmission power constraint of SUs, and the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) constraint of each SU. In our earlier work, the problem was formulated as a non-cooperative game under the assumption of perfect channel state information (CSI). Nash equilibrium (NE) is considered as the solution of this game. A distributed algorithm is proposed which can converge to the NE. Due to the limited cooperation between the secondary base station (SBS) and the PU, imperfect CSI between the SBS and the PU is further considered in this work. The problem is formulated as a robust game. As it is difficult to solve the optimization problem in this case, existence of the NE cannot be analyzed. Therefore, convergence property of the sum utility of SUs will be illustrated numerically. Simulation results show that under perfect CSI the proposed algorithm can converge to a locally optimal pair of transmission power vector and beamforming vector, while under imperfect CSI the sum utility of SUs converges with the increase of the transmission power constraint of SUs.     

Flexible block‐wise loading algorithm for effective resource allocation and reduction of uplink feedback information in OFDMA systems

Adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) is a well‐known technique that selects a suitable modulation level and coding rate according to the user's channel quality. The utilization of AMC in downlink (DL) requires the channel information of each user on DL to properly select the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) level. However, under a practical OFDMA system environment, it is unsuitable to feedback all the channel information over the whole frequency resources due to the limited uplink bandwidth. In this paper, to optimize the performance of the AMC system and to reduce the uplink feedback requirement, we propose a flexible block‐wise loading (FBL) algorithm combined with a novel channel quality information (CQI) feedback scheme requiring less number of CQI feedback bits, which is suitable for the general OFDMA system with AMC. The proposed FBL algorithm dynamically allocates groups of sub‐carriers to each user in DL based on the channel quality information encapsulated in a newly defined feedback signal format. As a result, the sector throughput and outage performance is improved due to the flexibility on the sub‐channel allocation and increased accuracy on the CQI feedback information by the proposed FBL algorithm. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于认知无线电的新型非合作功率控制博弈算法

从认知无线电技术特性出发,在干扰温度门限的限制条件下,提出了基于新的代价函数功率控制博弈论算法,以有效地提高认知用户的信干噪比。根据信道状况、吞吐量最大化和功率限制的需求,将功率控制问题转化为一个干扰受限的多约束非线性规划问题。结合博弈论和最优化理论,证明了其纳什均衡的存在性和唯一性,给出了该模型的分布式求解算法。仿真实验表明,该算法可以有效提高认知用户的QoS和系统性能,充分利用无线资源。     

Energy-Efficient Cooperative Transmission in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with QoS Constraint

Heterogeneous wireless network is an effective scheme to improve both the spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency of cellular system. However, interference limits the performance of such heterogeneous wireless network seriously. Hence cooperative decision making, i.e., cooperative transmission is necessary. In this paper, we develop an energy-efficient scheme for cooperative transmission in heterogeneous wireless networks with QoS constraint. Since too much signaling is needed for absolutely centralized cooperation, which is infeasible in practical system, partly cooperation is considered in this paper. We first formulate the problem as a two-stage Stackelberg game. In the first stage, an energy-efficient transmission scheme for macrocell users (MUE) is proposed based on the interference state of the MUEs. In the second stage, after obtaining the SINR and target SINR of the MUEs, the femtocell base stations update their beamformers and optimize the transmission power individually through a non-cooperative game, the existence and uniqueness of the Nash equilibrium is proved. Then an iterative algorithm is proposed to obtain the Stackelberg equilibrium. Simulation results show the performance gain of the proposed scheme.     

Design of Adaptive Modulation and Coding Scheme for Truncated Hybrid ARQ

It has been known that adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) at the physical layer can be combined with a truncated automatic repeat request (ARQ) at the data link layer so as to maximize the spectral efficiency under prescribed delay and error performance constraint. In this paper, we consider the same joint design approach when incremental redundancy-based hybrid ARQ (IR-HARQ) is associated with an AMC design at the physical layer. The extensive simulation studies for predicting the progressive combining gain with each retransmission enables to evaluate the bandwidth efficiency that can be achieved by selecting a more aggressive modulation and coding rate set (MCS) at the expense of packet error rate in earlier transmissions. It has been demonstrated that the aggressive AMC design approach in association with IR-based truncated HARQ can improve bandwidth efficiency by 5.8 and 3.3 dB, as compared to the conservative AMC design approach with truncated HARQ and aggressive AMC design approach with truncated ARQ (i.e., without taking the progressive combining gain in HARQ into account), respectively.     

Power control algorithm in cognitive radio system based on modified Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm

Based on the non-cooperative power control game introduced by David Goodman, in this paper, we will introduce the concept of target SIR, modify the utility function, and propose a modified power control game algorithm. In this proposed power control game algorithm, it will be proved that the Nash equilibrium exists and is unique. To further improve the accuracy of the solution, the Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) will be modified and adopted by incorporating the basic ideas of Artificial Fish (AF). It can be shown that the proposed algorithm will have better global convergence and will have less possibility to be tripped in local optimum. Simulation results show that the proposed power control algorithm based on modified Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (MSFLA) can not only increases the controllability on the target SIR but also reduces the user transmission power and improves system performance.     

Multiuser adaptive transmission technique for time-varying frequency-selective fading channels

This paper proposes an efficient multiuser adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) scheme that considers inevitable feedback delay by employing short-term and long-term channel state information (CSI) in time-varying frequency-selective fading channels. By taking the statistic of the true signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at a given predicted SNR value into account, the required transmit power to meet the target packet-error-rate (PER) can be obtained and used for user selection, power allocation, and modulation and coding set (MCS) selection. In addition, a simple and useful approximation method of obtaining the required transmit power is proposed. The performance of the proposed scheme is shown to be much better than that of conventional schemes without considering the feedback delay or the prediction error. The proposed scheme can also reduce the feedback resource while maintaining the system throughput by allocating different feedback resources to different users according to their prediction error variances.     

Performance evaluation of channel inversion precoding for downlink multi-user MIMO system

In downlink multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) system, not every user (user equipment (UE)) can calculate accurately signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) without prior knowledge of the other users' precoding vector. To solve this problem, this article proposes a channel inversion precoding scheme by using the lower bound of SINR and zero-forcing (ZF) algorithm. However, the SINR mismatch between lower bound SINR and actual SINR causes the inaccurateness of adaptive modulation and coding (AMC). As a result, it causes degradation in performance. Simulation results show that channel inversion precoding provides lower throughput than that of single user multi-input multi-output (SU-MIMO) at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) (>14 dB), due to the SINR mismatch, although the sum-rate of channel inversion precoding is higher than that of SU-MIMO at full SNR regime.     

SINR and throughput improvement for VANET using fuzzy power control

This paper proposes transmission power control for vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) using fuzzy system. Despite the potential advantages of VANET especially for safety and intelligent transportation system, some challenges are discovered during the implementation of VANET. Main challenges emerge because of the dynamic environment and high mobility of vehicle. Furthermore, the interference due to the shared‐spectrum usage can significantly decrease the quality of signal. Fuzzy system is implemented to control the transmission power based on the signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) difference with the targeted value of the receiver vehicle and the interference inflicted by the transmitter vehicle. The algorithm of fuzzy power control for VANET is proposed, and the performance is evaluated through the simulations. The results of simulations show that the proposed algorithm can increase SINR of vehicles especially the vehicles with SINR value below the target. Thus, the average of SINR and the throughput of the system can be increased as well.     

Joint Receiver and Transmitter Optimization for Energy-Efficient CDMA Communications

This paper focuses on the cross-layer issue of joint multiuser detection and resource allocation for energy efficiency in wireless code-division multiple-access (CDMA) networks. In particular, assuming that a linear multiuser detector is adopted in the uplink receiver, the situation considered is that in which each terminal is allowed to vary its transmit power, spreading code, and uplink receiver in order to maximize its own utility, which is defined as the ratio of data throughput to transmit power. Applying a game-theoretic formulation, a non-cooperative game for utility maximization is formulated, and it is proved that a unique Nash equilibrium exists, which, under certain conditions, is also Pareto-optimal. Theoretical results concerning the relationship between the problems of signal-to-interference-plus noise ratio (SINR) maximization and mean-square error (MSE) minimization are given, and, by applying the tools of large system analysis, a new distributed power control algorithm is implemented, based on very little prior information about the user of interest. The utility profile achieved by the active users in a large CDMA system is also computed, and, moreover, the centralized socially optimal solution is analyzed. Considerations concerning the extension of the proposed framework to a multi-cell scenario are also briefly detailed. Simulation results confirm that the proposed non-cooperative game largely outperforms competing alternatives, and that it exhibits negligible performance loss with respect to the socially optimal solution, and only in the case in which the number of users exceeds the processing gain. Finally, results also show an excellent agreement between the theoretical closed-form formulas based on large system analysis and the outcome of numerical experiments.     

衰落信道下基于非合作博弈的Ad hoc协作并行传输方案

该文针对Ad hoc网络中同时存在的快、慢衰落情况,提出一种依据节点信号干扰噪声比(Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio,SINR)计算并行传输门限的方法。该方法在获知节点信道质量的分布情况后,采用贝叶斯非合作博弈理论对不同源目的节点对之间的并行传输进行建模。考虑到该模型会使信道质量长时间低于并行传输门限的节点处于发送饥饿状态,该文引入协作通信机制来解决饥饿节点的并行传输问题,且与已存在的源目的节点通信对并存。仿真结果显示,该文提出的CTCG (Concurrent Transmission based on Channel quality with Game theory aid)模型能较大程度增加Ad hoc网络的并行传输机会,提高系统吞吐量,且能够较好的解决饥饿节点的发送抑制问题。     

基于非合作博弈的联合功率与速率控制算法

在多媒体CDMA网络中,需要对用户的功率进行控制,既保证每个用户的QoS要求,又不增加对其它用户的干扰,同时还要对用户的数据速率进行控制,以避免拥塞。将功率和速率控制等效为一个具有N个用户的非合作博弈,用效用函数表征用户对系统服务质量的满意程度,用代价函数描述达到通信要求所消耗的无线资源,从而将联合功率与速率控制算法描述为最大化净效用函数（效用函数和代价函数之差）的过程,最终得到系统中各用户全局最佳数据传输速率和达到服务质量所需的最小发射功率组合,并证明了纳什均衡的存在性。     

OFDMA毫微微小区网络中基于效用公平的功率控制策略

毫微微小区(Femtocell)网络能够增强室内覆盖,提高系统容量,但是在频谱共享正交频分多址(OFDMA) Femtocell网络中,同频干扰严重限制了网络的性能。针对频谱共享Femtocell网络中的上行链路,基于网络效率和毫微微小区用户间的公平性,该文提出合作纳什议价功率控制博弈模型,该博弈模型不仅考虑了对宏基站的干扰,而且考虑了毫微微小区用户最小信干噪比(SINR)需求。根据该博弈模型,进一步分析了具有帕累托(Pareto)最优的Kalai-Smorodingsky(KS)议价解。仿真结果表明,该策略既能保证用户公平性、最小SINR需求,又能够有效提高网络频谱利用率。     

On the performance of adaptive modulation in cellular systems

Adaptive modulation techniques have the potential to substantially increase the spectrum efficiency and to provide different levels of service to users, both of which are considered important for third-generation cellular systems. In this work, we propose a general framework to quantify the potential gains of such techniques. Specifically, we study the throughput performance gain that may be achieved by combining adaptive modulation and power control. Our results show that: (1) using adaptive modulation even without any power control provides a significant throughput advantage over using signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) balancing power control and (2) combining adaptive modulation and a suitable power control scheme leads to a significantly higher throughput as compared to no power control or using SINR-balancing power control. The first observation is especially important from an implementation point of view. Adjusting the modulation level without changing the transmission power requires far fewer measurements and feedback as compared to the SINR-balancing power control or the optimal power control. Hence, it is significantly easier to implement. Although presented in the context of adaptive modulation, the results also apply to other variable rate transmission techniques, e.g., rate adaptive coding schemes, coded modulation schemes, etc. This work provides valuable insight into the performance of variable rate transmission techniques in multi-user environments     

High throughput relay policy in wireless cooperative relaying networks based on stochastic control theory

This paper proposes a distributed relay and modulation and coding scheme (MCS) selection in wireless cooperative relaying networks where the adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) scheme is applied. First-order finite-state Markov channels (FSMCs) are used to model the wireless channels and make prediction. The objective of the relay policy is to select one relay and MCS among different alternatives in each time-slot according to their channel state information (CSI) with the goal of maximizing the throughput of the whole transmission period. The procedure of relay and MCS selection can be formulated as a discounted Markov decision chain, and the relay policy can be obtained with recent advances in stochastic control algorithms. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.