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http://dx.doi.org/10.7236/JIIBC.2016.16.1.103

Efficient Power Allocation Algorithm for Wireless Networks  

Ahn, Hong-Young (Dept. of Computer Information Communication, Hongik University)
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The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication / v.16, no.1, 2016 , pp. 103-108 More about this Journal
Abstract
In communication systems the solution of the problem of maximizing the mutual information between the input and output of a channel composed of several subchannels under total power constraint has a waterfilling structure. OFDM and MIMO can be decomposed into parallel subchannels with CSI. Waterfilling solves the problem of optimal power allocation to these subchannels to achieve the rate approaching the channel capacity under total power constraint. In waterfilling, more power is alloted to good channels(high SNR) and less or no power to bad channels to increase the rate of good channels, resulting in channel capacity. Waterfilling finds the exact water level satisfying the power constraint employing an iterative algorithm to estimate and update the water level. In this process computation of partial sums of inverse of square of subchannel gain is repeatedly required. In this paper we reduced the computation time of waterfilling algorithm by replacing the partial sum computation with reference to an array which contains the precomputed partial sums in initialization phase.
Keywords
OFDM; MIMO; parallel channels; waterfilling; iterative algorithm;
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