Energy Efficient Power Allocation With Demand Side Coordination for OFDMA Downlink Transmissions

We investigate the energy-efficient power allocation for downlink transmission in orthogonal frequency division multiple access-based long term evolution systems. Aiming at realizing on-demand power allocation in cellular networks, we explore the available coordination between the base station and multiple users, and propose a new performance merit, namely, the demand side coordination energy efficiency (DSC-EE), which captures the system normalized EE and the demand side information. The proposed DSC-EE is designed to exploit individual disparities from both the entire system and the individual own expected utility perspectives. Our goal is to maximize the DSC-EE of the system via power allocation with a constraint on the maximum transmit power. Specifically, the objective function of DSC-EE maximization problem in a fractional form can be transformed into a subtractive form that is more tractable based on the fractional programming theory. The convergence property of the proposed algorithms and the meaningfulness of the proposed performance merit related to the EE are demonstrated by simulations. The comparison of four EE metrics, the EE and the rate fairness, global-EE, Sum-EE, and DSC-EE, shows that the DSC-EE maximization tends to achieve high implementation level of on-demand power allocation while ensuring the EE of the system. In addition, when the minimum rate replaces the expected rate in the DSC-EE, further performance comparison indicates the necessity and impact of the expected rate in the tolerable quality of service bias function.