Title: Resource allocation algorithm for multi-user MIMO-OFDM systems for high throughput WLAN

Authors: Habib Ayad; Khalid El Baamrani; Abdellah Ait Ouahman

Addresses: Team Telecommunication and Computer Networks, Faculty of Science Semlalia, University Cadi Ayyad, P.O. Box 2390, Marrakech, Morocco. ' Department of Telecommunications, ENSA of Marrakech, University Cadi Ayyad, P.O. Box 575, Marrakech, Morocco. ' Team Telecommunication and Computer Networks, Faculty of Science Semlalia, University Cadi Ayyad, P.O. Box 2390, Marrakech, Morocco

Abstract: In this paper, a new resource allocation algorithm for the wireless communication systems coupled with multiple transmit receive antennas and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is proposed. To transform the MIMO channel into parallel eigenmode subchannels for each subcarrier, the base station (BS) employs singular value decomposition (SVD) based on channel state information (CSI). In order to maximise the system throughput with a limited power for the target BER, the proposed algorithm assigns the subcarrier to user that has the maximum Euclidean norm of the vector composed of the gains of all spatial subchannels on each subcarrier. After subcarrier-assigning, the Lagrange method is used to obtain an optimal power distribution. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm gives significant improvement in maximisation of the system throughput.

Keywords: resource allocation; multi-user MIMO-OFDM; singular value decomposition; SVD; Lagrange method; WLAN; wireless LANs; local area networks; wireless communications; channel state information; system throughput; optimal power distribution; optimisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMNDI.2011.042563

International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, 2011 Vol.3 No.4, pp.218 - 223

Published online: 26 Mar 2015 *

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