Dnc. Tse et Sv. Hanly, Multiaccess fading channels - Part I: Polymatroid structure, optimal resource allocation and throughput capacities, IEEE INFO T, 44(7), 1998, pp. 2796-2815
In multiaccess wireless system, dynamic allocation of resources such as tra
nsmit power, bandwidths, and rates is an important means to deal with the t
ime-varying nature of the environment. In this two-part paper, we consider
the problem of optimal resource allocation from an information-theoretic po
int of view, We focus on the multiaccess fading channel with Gaussian noise
, and define two notions of capacity depending on whether the traffic is de
lay-sensitive or not. In part I, we characterize the throughput capacity re
gion which contains the long-term achievable rates through the time-varying
channel, We show that each point on the boundary of the region can be achi
eved by successive decoding. Moreover, the optimal rate and power allocatio
ns in each fading state can be explicitly obtained in a greedy manner, The
solution can be viewed as the generalization of the water-filling construct
ion for single-user channels to multiaccess channels with arbitrary number
of users, and exploits the underlying polymatroid structure of the capacity
region. In part II, we characterize a delay-limited capacity region and ob
tain analogous results.