Opportunistic scheduling in decentralized OFDM systems

Yahya S. Al-Harthi*, Ahmed H. Tewfik, Mohamed Slim Alouini

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is emerging as a key modulation scheme for future high speed packets based wireless transmission systems. In a wireless multiuser network system, when an opportunistic scheduling is employed in the OFDM system with adaptive modulation, it may encounter implementation problems due to the need for a large amount of channel information. In this paper we propose a decentralized scheduling scheme to exploit multiuser diversity (MUDiv) in OFDM systems. Users access the channel using a simple variation of the ALOHA random access protocol, termed channel-aware/collision-limited ALOHA. Based on the channel quality, users randomly transmit a request packet with a probability p. When a collision occurs, collided users will retransmit a request packet with probability p. We present an analytical analysis of the average system throughput (average spectral efficiency). We compare our proposed scheduling scheme with the proposed scheduling scheme in [1], the optimal selective diversity scheduling scheme (centralized scheduling), and the round-robin scheduling scheme.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2006 IEEE 64th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-2006 Fall
Pages1289-1294
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event2006 IEEE 64th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-2006 Fall - Montreal, QC, Canada
Duration: Sep 25 2006Sep 28 2006

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
ISSN (Print)1550-2252

Other

Other2006 IEEE 64th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-2006 Fall
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal, QC
Period09/25/0609/28/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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