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Link adaptation algorithm for distributed coded transmissions in cooperative OFDMA systems

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This paper proposes a link adaptation algorithm for cooperative transmissions in the down-link connection of an OFDMA-based wireless system. The algorithm aims at maximizing the spectral efficiency of a relay-aided communication link, while satisfying the block error rate constraints at both the relay and the destination nodes. The optimal solution would be to perform an exhaustive search over a high-dimensional space determined by all possible combinations of modulations, code rates and information block lengths on the individual channels of the cooperative link; clearly, such an approach has an intractable complexity. Our solution is to use a link performance prediction method and a trellis diagram representation such that the resulting algorithm outputs the link configuration that conveys as many information bits as possible and also fulfilling the block error rate constraints. The proposed link adaptation algorithm has linear complexity with the number of available resource blocks, while still provides a very good performance, as shown by simulation results.

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  1. Recall that the use of a direct or cooperative transmission depends on the relay activation decision.

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Acknowledgments

The work of M. Varga was supported by the project “Development and support of multidisciplinary postdoctoral programmes in major technical areas of national strategy of Research - Development - Innovation” 4D-POSTDOC, contract no. POSDRU/89/1.5/S/52603, project co-funded by the European Social Fund through Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007–2013. The work of M.A. Badiu was supported in part by the project SIDOC under Contract POSDRU/88/1.5/S/60078”.

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  1. Department of Communications, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 40027, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Mihály Varga, Mihai-Alin Badiu & Vasile Bota

  2. Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Ålborg, 9220, Denmark

    Mihai-Alin Badiu

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Varga, M., Badiu, MA. & Bota, V. Link adaptation algorithm for distributed coded transmissions in cooperative OFDMA systems. Telecommun Syst 59, 477–489 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-014-9908-1

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