Rate control with distributed joint diversity and power control for wireless networks

Two rate control algorithms with distributed joint diversity and power control are proposed for wireless networks. We prove that with the proposed algorithms, the allowed transmitting rate can converge to the individual rate requirement with which the QoS requirement can be satisfied, and each user can share the bandwidth according to the pre-specified setting so that certain fairness can be maintained among the users in the same cell. Simulation results also show that the scheme with rate control gains larger throughput than the scheme without rate control.