Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2011, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (4): 45-51.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(10)60082-9

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Joint relay selection and power allocation algorithm in two-way relay networks with proportional fair constraint

  

  • Received:2011-01-20 Revised:2011-03-30 Online:2011-08-31 Published:2011-08-24
  • Contact: Yi DING E-mail:dingyi2348@hotmail.com
  • Supported by:

    This work was supported by the Sino-Swedish IMT-Advanced Cooperation Project (2008DFA11780), the Canada-China Scientific and Technological Cooperation (2010DFA11320), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60802033, 60873190), the Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (2008AA01Z211), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2009RC0308, G470209), and the Important National Science and Technology Specific Projects (2010ZX03007-003-04, 2010ZX03005-001-03).

Abstract:

In this paper, we consider the joint relay selection and power allocation problem for two-way relay systems with multiple relay nodes. Traditionally, relay selection schemes are primarily focused on selecting one relay node to maximize the transmission sum rate or minimize the outage probability. If so, it is possible to cause certain relay nodes overloaded. In addition, the joint relay selection and power allocation problem is a mixed integer program problem and prohibitive in terms of complexity. Therefore, we propose a novel low complexity joint relay selection and power allocation algorithm with proportional fair scheduling to get the load-balancing among potential relays. Simulation results turn out that, compared with round-robin schemes and max sum rate schemes, the proposed algorithm can achieve the tradeoff between system transmission sum rate and load-balancing.

Key words:

relay selection, power allocation, two-way relay network, amplify-and-forward relay, proportional fair scheduling