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In recent years, energy efficiency has become a critical metric for green system design and drawn universal attention. In this paper, we propose a new radio resource allocation algorithm to minimize the power consumption of the base station for the multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems with different quality of service constraints of users. The discontinuous transmission (DTX) technique is applied in the systems with mixed orthogonal frequency division access and space division multiple access. Radio resources in time, frequency and space domain are optimally allocated to users in two steps: In the first step, the active time in the DTX mode is estimated under the assumption that every user experiences slow time-varying fading in an OFDM frame. In the second step, subcarriers, bits and power are allocated in the active time slots. Although the proposed algorithm is suboptimal due to high computation complexity, simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the power consumption of the base station and improve resource utilization.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61271235), the Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University (No. 2011D07).
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Su, P., Sheng, Z., Weiwei, Z. et al. Power Optimization in MIMO-OFDM Systems with Mixed Orthogonal Frequency Division and Space Division Multiple Access Scheme. Wireless Pers Commun 91, 885–901 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3502-7
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