Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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JOURNAL OF BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOM ›› 2010, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (2): 69-73.doi: 10.13190/jbupt.201002.69.273

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A Genetic and Tabu Search Based Power Allocation Algorithm for Multi-cell OFDMA Systems

ZHANG Tian-kui1, ZHENG Jie-ying2, ZENG Zhi-min1   

  1. (1School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China;  2Beijing Branch, China United Network Communications Corporation, Beijing 100045, China)
  • Received:2009-07-28 Revised:2009-12-22 Online:2010-04-28 Published:2010-04-28

Abstract:

A power allocation algorithm is proposed for multicell orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems. The optimization objective is to minimize the system transmission power under the constraint of the users requirements on data rate. The power allocation on cofrequency subchannel of multiple cells is solved by the combination of the genetic algorithm and the tabu search algorithm. A new fitness function is defined and the process of this algorithm is given. Simulation shows that, compared with other algorithms, the proposed algorithm can reduce the system transmission power while guaranteeing the data rate requirement of all users, which improves the energy efficiency. 

Key words: orthogonal frequency division multiple access, power allocation, genetic algorithm, tabu search