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Resource allocation schemes for next generation wireless communication systems

University of British Columbia

Recent studies have indicated that spectrum scarcity in next generation wireless networks is inevitable due to the surge of mobile communication usage which offers the capability of instant access to users’ data and multimedia content anywhere anytime. Demand of mobile data traffic is found to have doubled within a year, and is expected to grow by 15 times in about five years. Fulfilling such mounting demand with the limited radio resources is a huge challenge for next generation wireless communication systems. Moreover, meeting the diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements of various types of user applications is indispensable. To tackle these challenges and to improve the spectral efficiency, radio resource management needs to be optimized for various novel systems such as relay-based cooperative transmission technique and opportunistic spectral utilization using cognitive radio (CR) technology. In addition to spectral efficiency, effective resource allocation methods need to be designed to improve the energy efficiency of such systems to achieve sustainable green communication. In this thesis, we investigate performance of certain resource allocation techniques in next generation wireless communication systems through analytical modeling and propose improved solutions using results from these models and simulations. First, we analyze the performance of resource allocation schemes for guaranteed QoS provisioning in a relay-based cooperative communication system. We introduce novel methods for precoder design for multi-antenna source and relay stations employing joint zero-forcing method. We design various schemes to allocate available transmit power to the source and relay(s) in a spectrally efficient manner. Next, we study the performance of resource allocation schemes for multicarrier multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-based CR system. We propose an optimal power allocation scheme for such system considering the practical CR constraints. Finally, we investigate the issues and challenges in enabling green communication in next generation wireless communication systems. We propose energy-efficient resource allocation method for guaranteed QoS provisioning by employing relay-based cooperative communication. We also analyze the intrinsic trade-off between energy and spectral efficiency using multi-objective optimization approach. For all of the proposed algorithms and schemes, we also present extensive simulation-based results for comparison with methods existing in the literature.

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2012-12-19

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43711

Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of British Columbia

UBCV

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/