摘要
A resource allocation scheme with the considerations of user fairness and load balancing is proposed in orthogonal frequency division multiple access （OFDMA）-based relay networks. The optimal resource allocation scheme is formulated mathematically to maximize the minimum achievable rate among all user equipments （UEs） for fairnegs improvement. The optimal problem has been proved to be N-P-hard and it is prohibitive to find the optimal solution for its computational complexity. Accordingly, this paper proposes a suboptimal scheme which considers not only user fairness but also load balancing among base stations （BS） and relay stations （RSs） during resource allocation procedure. The suboptimal scheme takes the traffic load of access nodes （BS and RSs） into consideration to balance the system traffic load, which would prevent them from overloading and throughput degradation. Simulation results show that the suboptimal scheme performs similarly to the optimal solution and can enhance the system fairness and load balancing performance significantly compared with the traditional schemes.
基金
） Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No. 61001115）, the National Major Science and Technology Project （No. 2011ZX03001- 007-03）, and the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing （No. 4102044）.
