Power Allocation Games in Wireless Networks of Multi-antenna Terminals

We consider wireless networks that can be modeled by multiple access channels in which all the terminals are equipped with multiple antennas. The propagation model used to account for the effects of transmit and receive antenna correlations is the unitary-invariant-unitary model, which is one of the most general models available in the literature. In this context, we introduce and analyze two resource allocation games. In both games, the mobile stations selfishly choose their power allocation policies in order to maximize their individual uplink transmission rates; in particular they can ignore some specified centralized policies. In the first game considered, the base station implements successive interference cancellation (SIC) and each mobile station chooses his best space-time power allocation scheme; here, a coordination mechanism is used to indicate to the users the order in which the receiver applies SIC. In the second framework, the base station is assumed to implement single-...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Elena Veronica Belmega, Samson Lasaulce, Mérouane Debbah, M. Jungers, Julien Dumont
• Keywords: CORR 2010, Education, Mobile Station, Power Allocation, Power Allocation Policies