Power control in cellular networks subject to measurement error

A distributed power control algorithm for cellular networks is proposed. This algorithm includes the distributive balancing (DB) algorithm (Zander 1992) and the distributed power control (DPC) algorithm (Grandhi et al. 1994) as special cases. We show that this algorithm converges much faster than the DB and DPC algorithms, is less sensitive to measurement error than the DPC algorithm, and its convergence rate and sensitivity to measurement error can be tuned by varying a design parameter.