Unified Analysis for SIR-Based Power and Rate Control in Multipath Fading Channels

In this paper, we present a unified analysis on various signal-to-interference power ratio (SIR)-based power and rate control schemes in independent and nonidentical multipath fading channels. We study wireless direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems with RAKE reception and derive new expressions for a mobile user's average SIR, average transmission power, and average data rate in terms of the probability distribution of the SIR. The performance of SIR-based combined power/rate control, power control, rate control, truncated power control, and truncated rate control schemes in independent and nonidentical Rayleigh fading channels is presented and compared. By substituting appropriate SIR distributions, this general mathematical framework can be applied to other fading channels such as the Nakagami, Rician, and lognormal channels