PREFACE xiii -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv -- ACRONYMS xvii -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 -- 1.1 Evolution of Wireless Communication Systems 1 -- 1.2 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access 2 -- 1.3 Organization of this Book 5 -- CHAPTER 2 BACKGROUND ON DOWNLINK RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN OFDMA WIRELESS NETWORKS 9 -- 2.1 Centralized Single Cell Scheduling 9 -- 2.2 Distributed Scheduling 13 -- 2.3 Scheduling in Multicell Scenarios 14 -- 2.3.1 Multicell Scheduling in LTE 16 -- 2.4 Summary 18 -- CHAPTER 3 ERGODIC SUM-RATE MAXIMIZATION WITH CONTINUOUS RATES 19 -- 3.1 Background 19 -- 3.2 Problem Formulation 21 -- 3.3 Problem Solution 23 -- 3.4 Achievable Rate Region 28 -- 3.5 Results and Discussion 35 -- 3.6 Summary 41 -- CHAPTER 4 ERGODIC SUM-RATE MAXIMIZATION WITH DISCRETE RATES 43 -- 4.1 Background 43 -- 4.2 Problem Formulation 44 -- 4.3 Problem Solution 46 -- 4.4 Results and Discussion 52 -- 4.5 Summary 57 -- CHAPTER 5 GENERALIZATION TO UTILITY MAXIMIZATION 59 -- 5.1 Background 59 -- 5.2 Ergodic Utility Maximization with Continuous Rates 60 -- 5.3 Ergodic Utility Maximization with Discrete Rates 64 -- 5.4 Summary 68 -- CHAPTER 6 SUBOPTIMAL IMPLEMENTATION OF ERGODIC SUM-RATE MAXIMIZATION 69 -- 6.1 Background 69 -- 6.2 Suboptimal Approximation of the Continuous Rates Solution 71 -- 6.3 Suboptimal Approximation of the Discrete Rates Solution 73 -- 6.4 Complexity Analysis of the Suboptimal Algorithms 76 -- 6.5 Results and Discussion 78 -- 6.6 Summary 88 -- CHAPTER 7 SUBOPTIMAL IMPLEMENTATION WITH PROPORTIONAL FAIRNESS 89 -- 7.1 Background 89 -- 7.2 Proportional Fair Scheduling 91 -- 7.3 Low Complexity Utility Maximization Algorithms 94 -- 7.4 Proportional Fair Utilities 100 -- 7.5 Results and Discussion 101 -- 7.6 Summary 112 -- CHAPTER 8 SCHEDULING WITH DISTRIBUTED BASE STATIONS 113 -- 8.1 Background 113 -- 8.2 System Model 115 -- 8.3 Scheduling with Distributed Base Stations 118 -- 8.4 Results and Discussion 120 -- 8.5 Distributed Base Stations Versus Relays 128 -- 8.6 Distributed Base Stations Versus Femtocells 131.

8.7 Summary 133 -- CHAPTER 9 DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING WITH USER COOPERATION 135 -- 9.1 Background 135 -- 9.2 Cooperative Distributed Scheduling Scheme 136 -- 9.3 Distributed Scheduling Algorithm 140 -- 9.4 Results and Discussion 142 -- 9.5 Summary 149 -- CHAPTER 10 DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING WITHOUT USER COOPERATION 151 -- 10.1 Background 151 -- 10.2 Noncooperative Distributed Scheduling Scheme 153 -- 10.3 Comparison to Existing Schemes 155 -- 10.4 Analysis of Measurement Inaccuracies 156 -- 10.5 Results and Discussion 160 -- 10.6 Optimization of Transmission Probabilities 165 -- 10.7 Practical Considerations 169 -- 10.8 Summary 171 -- CHAPTER 11 CENTRALIZED MULTICELL SCHEDULING WITH INTERFERENCE MITIGATION 173 -- 11.1 Background 173 -- 11.2 Problem Formulation 175 -- 11.3 Iterative Pricing-Based Power Control Solution 178 -- 11.4 Pricing Game with Centralized Control 184 -- 11.5 Suboptimal Scheduling Scheme Using Pricing-Based Power Control 186 -- 11.6 Suboptimal Scheduling Scheme Using Probabilistic Transmission 190 -- 11.7 Results and Discussion 191 -- 11.8 Summary 201 -- CHAPTER 12 DISTRIBUTED MULTICELL SCHEDULING WITH INTERFERENCE MITIGATION 203 -- 12.1 Background 203 -- 12.2 System Model 204 -- 12.3 Intracell Cooperation: Distributed Scheduling 205 -- 12.4 Intercell Interference Mitigation/Avoidance 206 -- 12.5 Results and Discussion 209 -- 12.6 Practical Aspects 217 -- 12.6.3 Application in a CR Network 219 -- 12.6.4 Application in a Network with Femtocell Deployment 219 -- 12.6.5 Distributed Multicell Scheduling without User Cooperation 220 -- 12.7 Summary 221 -- CHAPTER 13 SCHEDULING IN STATE-OF-THE-ART OFDMA-BASED WIRELESS SYSTEMS 223 -- 13.1 WiMAX Scheduling Overview 223 -- 13.2 LTE Scheduling Overview 228 -- 13.3 SCFDMA Versus OFDMA Scheduling 235 -- 13.4 Comparison to the LTE Power Control Scheme 240 -- 13.5 Summary 245 -- CHAPTER 14 FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS 247 -- 14.1 Resource Allocation with Multiple Service Classes 247 -- 14.2 Network MIMO 247 -- 14.3 Coalitional Game Theory 248.

14.4 Resource Allocation with Femtocells 249 -- 14.5 Green Networks and Self-Organizing Networks 249 -- 14.6 Joint Uplink/Downlink Resource Allocation 250 -- 14.7 Joint Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Networks 251 -- 14.8 Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks 252 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 255 -- INDEX 269.