Using Limited Feedback in Power Allocation Design for a Two-Hop Relay OFDM System

In this paper, we study power allocation (PA) in a single-relay OFDM system with limited feedback. We propose a PA scheme that uses a codebook of quantized PA vectors designed offline and known to the source, relay, and destination. The destination, which has full knowledge of channel side information (CSI), chooses one of the codebook vectors and conveys back to the source and relay. With the limited amount of available feedback, the design of an appropriate codebook is central to PA, which varies depending on the destination's strategy to choose the optimal PA vector. Assuming high received SNR on either link in the relay path, we first derive the optimal PA solutions as the function of channel realizations with two design criteria, maximizing capacity and minimizing error rate. It is found that when there is high received SNR in either the relay path or the direct path, the optimal solutions for both criteria reduce to simple forms. For maximizing capacity, the available power ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICC
• Authors: Mahdi Hajiaghayi, Min Dong, Ben Liang
• Keywords: Communications, ICC 2009, Optimal Pa, Optimal Pa Vectors, Pa Vectors