Closed Form Solutions of Joint Water-Filling for Coordinated Transmission

Bing LUO  Qimei CUI  Hui WANG  Xiaofeng TAO  Ping ZHANG  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E93-B   No.12   pp.3461-3468
Publication Date: 2010/12/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E93.B.3461
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Wireless Distributed Networks)
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Keyword: 
power allocation,  coordinated multiple point transmission (CoMP),  block-fading,  water-filling(WF),  

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Summary: 
It is known that traditional water-filling provides a closed form solution for capacity maximization in frequency-selective channels or fading channels with adaptive modulation. However, the solution is derived from a maximum mutual information argument with a single total power constraint. Motivated by the new technology of coordinated multiple point transmission (CoMP), this paper considers a novel power allocation scheme for a frequency-selective fading channel with multiple coordinated transmission points (CTP) transmission, in which each CTP has a power constraint and an individual channel state information (CSI). In order to maximize the channel's throughput, closed form solutions are obtained by solving a non-convex constrained optimization problem. The solution turns out to take the form of traditional WF and also combined with some regular cooperative feature. Based on the derived solution, we firstly investigate a joint water-filling (Jo-WF) power allocation scheme and a new iterative Jo-WF algorithm. Numerical results are presented to verify the optimality of the derived scheme and to show throughput gains over traditional non-coordinated water-filling (WF) and equal power allocation (EPA). Considering the flexibility of CTP's category, e.g., base station or relay station, it is known that the derived Jo-WF power allocation scheme can be valid for any coordinated networks such as next-generation cellular networks or ad-hoc networks.