Abstract: Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) has gained a lot of attentions in the research of High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA). The idea is to adapt the transmission to the fast changing channel conditions by the use of different modulation and coding schemes (MCS). This paper presents an adaptive AMC algorithm and introduces a theoretical analysis model in order to to investigate its throughput and FER. Subject to the given FER target, our numerical and link level simulation results both show that our algorithm outperforms other existing adaptive algorithms. 15 Refs. In English.

Key words: Adaptive modulation and coding; threshold adjust; Markov model; HSDPA