Energy-Efficient Power Allocation Scheme for Uplink Distributed Antenna System with D2D Communication

Abstract

In this paper, the performance of uplink distributed antenna system (DAS) with Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is investigated over composite Rayleigh fading channels, and an energy-efficient power allocation (PA) scheme is developed for D2D communication underlaying DAS. Firstly, we establish the uplink DAS model with D2D communication. Then, the optimization problem for energy efficiency (EE) maximization subject to maximum total power constraint and the minimal rate constraints of cellular user and D2D user is formulated. Based on the pseudo-concave of objective function in optimization problem, we propose an optimal PA scheme with the bisection method to obtain the optimal solution of the optimization problem. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme. The proposed optimal PA scheme can achieve better EE performance than the conventional equal PA scheme, and the same EE as the PA scheme based on two-dimensional search method but with lower complexity.