Joint Channel Probing and Proportional Fair Scheduling in Wireless Networks

Details Joint Channel Probing and Proportional Fair Scheduling in Wireless Networks Joint Channel Probing and Proportional Fair Scheduling in Wireless Networks

2010-09-14

arxiv.org/abs/1009.2602v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

26 pages, 8 figures

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The design of a scheduling scheme is crucial for the efficiency and user-fairness of wireless networks. Assuming that the quality of all user channels is available to a central controller, a simple scheme which maximizes the utility function defined as the sum logarithm throughput of all users has been shown to guarantee proportional fairness. However, to acquire the channel quality information may consume substantial amount of resources. In this work, it is assumed that probing the quality of each user's channel takes a fraction of the coherence time, so that the amount of time for data transmission is reduced. The multiuser diversity gain does not always increase as the number of users increases. In case the statistics of the channel quality is available to the controller, the problem of sequential channel probing for user scheduling is formulated as an optimal stopping time problem. A joint channel probing and proportional fair scheduling scheme is developed. This scheme is extended to the case where the channel statistics are not available to the controller, in which case a joint learning, probing and scheduling scheme is designed by studying a generalized bandit problem. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed scheduling schemes can provide significant gain over existing schemes.

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