This paper proposes and analyzes a downlink multi-carrier proportional fair scheduler and an adaptive radio resource allocation algorithm combining the scheduler. This scheduler and algorithm are suitable for orthogonal frequency division multiple access wireless communication systems supporting multiple quality of service classes. Our results demonstrate that the scheduler and algorithm provide user-explicit fairness with user-individual quality of service guarantees, but the joint schheme achieves a higher sum-rate capacity with flexible parameter settings compared with the multi-carrier proportional fair scheduler.
LU Yan-hui YUAN Shu-chong YIN Chang-chuan YUE Guang-xin
In this article, an adaptive radio resource ＂allocation algorithm applied to multiple traffic orthogonal frequency division multiple access （OFDMA） system is proposed, which distributes subcarriers and bits among users according to their different quality of service requirements and traffic type. By classifying and priorifizing the users based on their traffic characteristic and ensuring resource for higher priority users, the new scheme decreases tremendously the outage probability of the users requiring a real-time transmission without impact on the spectrum efficiency of system, as well as the outage probability of data users is not increased compared with the radio resource allocation methods published.
