Subcarrier and power allocation for multiuser MIMO-OFDM systems with various detectors

Radio resource allocation for multiuser multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems is an important issue to improve overall system performance. Although the achievable rate has been adopted for a performance indicator in most resource allocation schemes, it may not be practical if a nonideal receiver including a suboptimal detector is used instead of optimal one. Under this practical circumstance, we study the subcarrier and power allocation to minimize the average bit error rate (BER) subject to a total power constraint. Different allocation algorithms are proposed for various MIMO detectors such as the maximum likelihood (ML) detector, linear detectors and the successive interference cancellation (SIC) detector. We also propose suboptimal algorithms to reduce the complexity. Based on the simulation results, we can confirm that the proposed suboptimal algorithm for each detector can achieve a comparable performance with the optimal allocation with a much lower complexity.