Alocação de recursos de rádio para sistemas sc-fdma baseado em relaxamento e programação linear

Abstract

In this work, we study the maximization problem of the sum of the weighted data rates in the wireless system’s uplink that uses SC-FDMA. The SC-FDMA multiple access scheme was adopted in the LTE uplink especially because it eases the power amplifier design in the mobile terminals. However, SC-FDMA presents an important restriction in radio resource allocation that is not present in OFDMA that was adopted in the LTE downlink: the resource adjacency or contiguity. With the resource adjacency constraint, the blocks of frequency resources assigned to each mobile terminal should be adjacent in the frequency domain. From the resource allocation point of view, this new constraint not only makes ineffective all previous resource allocation solutions proposed for OFDMA but also turns the problems even more harder in terms of computational complexity. In this work, we study the total data rate maximization problem in uplink SC-FDMA systems. Firstly, we discuss about the optimal solution of the problem that can be obtained through the use of integer optimization techniques. Motivated by the high computational complexity of this solution, we propose an alternative solution based on integer optimization relaxation and application of linear programming. The simulation results show that our proposed scheme is able to achieve the optimal solution in 55% (at least) of the simulations with a much lower computational complexity. For the cases where the solution obtained by continuous linear programming is not integer, the study proposes an algorithm that obtains an integer solution through rounding techniques. We also present a performance analysis comparing the algorithm developed with algorithms present in the literature.