Dynamic Power Allocation and User Scheduling for Power-Efficient and Low-Latency Communications

TL;DR

This paper introduces a joint dynamic power control and user pairing algorithm for hybrid multiple access systems, achieving ultra-reliable low-latency communication with high power efficiency and delay guarantees.

Contribution

It presents a novel optimization framework that dynamically adjusts power and user pairing based on channel and queue states for low-latency, power-efficient communications.

Findings

Guarantees end-to-end delay below 1 ms

Achieves high power efficiency and reliability

Effective user scheduling for URLLC

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a joint dynamic power control and user pairing algorithm for power-efficient and low-latency hybrid multiple access systems. In a hybrid multiple access system, user pairing determines whether the transmitter should serve a certain user by orthogonal multiple access (OMA) or non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). The proposed optimization framework minimizes the long-term time-average transmit power expenditure while reducing the queueing delay and satisfying time-average data rate requirements. The proposed technique observes channel and queue state information and adjusts queue backlogs to avoid an excessive queueing delay by appropriate user pairing and power allocation. Further, user scheduling for determining the activation of a given user link as well as flexible use of resources are captured in the proposed algorithm. Data-intensive simulation results show that the proposed scheme guarantees an end-to-end delay smaller than 1 ms with high power-efficiency and high reliability, based on the short frame structure designed for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC).