Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in Coordinated Downlink Multicell OFDMA Systems

In this paper, a resource allocation algorithm for maximizing the energy efficiency (EE) is studied in multicell orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) wireless networks. The resource allocation is designed based on imperfect channel state information (CSI). Universal frequency reuse is considered, and cochannel interference is dealt with via the cooperation of multiple base stations (BSs) sharing CSI but not user data. We formulate the energy-efficient resource allocation problem as a probabilistic mixed nonconvex optimization problem. The user scheduling, data rate adaptation, and power allocation are jointly designed to maximize the system EE, under the maximum transmitted power constraint and the outage probability constraint. An iterative algorithm is proposed in which the EE keeps improving until algorithm convergence. In each iteration, the energy-efficient power allocation optimization problem is solved by a lower bound problem and a parameterized transformation. Numerical results illustrate the convergence and the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. In a multicell environment with cochannel interference, the proposed algorithm has large EE gains relative to the spectral efficiency (SE) loss. Compared with noncoordinated methods, the proposed method can achieve higher EE when backhaul power consumption is low.

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