• DocumentCode
    472986
  • Title

    History-Based Adaptive Modulation for a Downlink Multicast Channel in OFDMA Systems

  • Author

    Wang, Haibo ; Schwefel, Hans Peter ; Toftegaard, Thomas Skjodeberg

  • Author_Institution
    Aalborg Univ., Aalborg
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    March 31 2008-April 3 2008
  • Firstpage
    1588
  • Lastpage
    1592
  • Abstract
    In this paper we investigated the adaptive modulation strategies for Multicast service in orthogonal frequency division multiple access systems. We defined a Reward function as the performance optimization target and developed adaptive modulation strategies to maximize this Reward function. The proposed optimization algorithm varied the instantaneous BER constraint of each mobile Multicast receiver according to its individual cumulated BER, which resulted in a significant Reward gain.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; adaptive modulation; frequency division multiple access; multicast communication; OFDMA systems; downlink multicast channel; history-based adaptive modulation; instantaneous BER constraint; mobile multicast receiver; multicast service; orthogonal frequency division multiple access systems; reward function; Bandwidth; Base stations; Bit error rate; Communications Society; Downlink; Fading; Frequency conversion; OFDM modulation; Optimization; Receivers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2008. WCNC 2008. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • ISSN
    1525-3511
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1997-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WCNC.2008.284
  • Filename
    4489315