On SC-FDMA resource allocation with power control

In this paper, single-carrier frequency division multiple accesses (SC-FDMA) is discussed. In particular, minimum sum power, subject to meeting user's demand is considered. There are two channel allocation schemes, localized and interleaved. In localized scheme, a block of convective channels in the spectrum is allocated to each user. In interleaved scheme, channels will be spread out over the spectrum and will be distributed equidistantly. It has been previously assumed that when a block of channels is assigned to a user, the same amount of power will be allocated to each channel. However, the power could be used more efficiently without this assumption. We show that the resulting power allocation problem can be solved in linear time and propose an optimal power allocation procedure. Next, the effect of this new power optimization procedure is investigated numerically. In the next part of paper, we prove that for the interleaved scheme, Minimum sum power problem with or without this new power optimization is polynomial solvable. Finally, we numerically compare localized and interleaved SC-FDMA with and without power optimization. The results show that the localized scheme with the new power optimization yields the best performance.