摘要:
An apparatus for signaling an allocation of a communication link between a transmitter (100) and a first receiver (102) to a first subchannel (H 1 ) of a communication channel and for signaling an allocation of a second communication link between the transmitter (100) and a second receiver (104) to a second subchannel (H 2 ) of the communication channel, the first and second subchannels (H 1 , H 2 ) being different from each other, comprises a subchannel allocation signaler (106) being configured to transmit a first user identifier (ui1) over the first subchannel (H 1 ) and to transmit a second user identifier (ui2) over the second subchannel (H 2 ), wherein the first and second user identifiers (ui1, ui2) are different from each other and wherein the first user identifier (ui1) is assigned to the first receiver (102) and the second user identifier (ui2) is assigned to the second receiver (104).
摘要:
The present invention presents a mechanism to incorporate quality of service constraints imposed by higher layers into the allocation of resources performed preferably in a multi-user-multi-carrier MIMO system. Quality of service constraints are given as fractions of rates that each user should obtain out of the resulting sum rate. Allocation of spatial and frequency dimensions is carried out according to the cooperative zero-forcing with successive encoding and successive allocation methods (CZF-SESAM). The inventive approach basically constitutes a means of forming allocation in each iteration of the CZF-SESAM taking into account prescribed quality of service constraints. The procedure consists of three basic steps. After all potential beam-forming vectors have been computed on each subcarrier at a certain iteration, first, preferably for each user, only the beam-forming vector is on each subcarrier selected that yields the highest channel gain. In the second step, considering the subchannel selected in the first step, capacity values are computed for every user and based on these capacity values and the quality of service constraints, the spectral share of each user is computed. Finally, the particular assignation of space-frequency dimensions is carried out by departing from a sum rate optimum allocation and modifying the initial allocation according to a minimum energy loss principle, in order to comply the spectral shares computed in a second step.