Abstract
In this paper, we investigate multi-cell coordinated scheduling and power allocation in downlink long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) systems, where orthogonal frequency division multiple-access (OFDMA) is used. The proposed scheme performs joint scheduling, power allocation, and modulation and coding scheme (MCS) selection to maximize the overall weighted throughput with proportional fairness. Our scheme considers the practical constraints in LTE-A systems. Since the optimization problem is a combinatorial and non- convex one and is with high complexity, low- complexity and suboptimal algorithms are proposed, which separate the scheduling and power allocation into two subproblems. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can improve the average system throughput by 10% and the 10th percentile throughput by 15% compared with the existing scheme.
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