1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks

Research Article

Dynamic downlink OFDM resource allocation for broadband multimedia services in wireless cellular systems

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.35,
        author={Navid Damji and Tho  Le-Ngoc},
        title={Dynamic downlink OFDM resource allocation for broadband multimedia services in wireless cellular systems},
        proceedings={1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2004},
        month={12},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.35}
    }
    
  • Navid Damji
    Tho Le-Ngoc
    Year: 2004
    Dynamic downlink OFDM resource allocation for broadband multimedia services in wireless cellular systems
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.35
Navid Damji1,*, Tho Le-Ngoc1,*
  • 1: Department of ECE, McGill University, 3480 University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2A7
*Contact email: ndamji@po-box.mcgill.ca, tho@ece.mcgill.ca

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of an efficient dynamic downlink multi-carrier resource allocation algorithm based on channel information suitable for packet-based voice and multimedia services in mobile cellular systems in a frequency-selective fading environment. The proposed algorithm sorts the time-varying sub-carrier responses according to their expected received signal strength, and allocates the best subcarrier(s) to each active user to satisfy its traffic requirements while maintaining the lowest possible transmitted power and smallest possible number of allocated sub-carriers. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated in terms of user outage probability and throughput in relation to the system load. Analytical and simulation results are compared and used to examine the effects of using highly bandwidth-efficient adaptive modulation/coding schemes, performance degradation due to practical implementation, and shadowing on the system performance.