Abstract

For wireless communication systems, iterative power control algorithms have been proposed to minimize transmitter powers while maintaining reliable communication between mobiles and base stations. To derive deterministic convergence results, these algorithms require perfect measurements of one or more of the following parameters: (i) the mobile's signal to interference ratio (SIR) at the receiver, (ii) the interference experienced by the mobile, and (iii) the bit error rate. However, these quantities are often difficult to measure and deterministic convergence results neglect the effect of stochastic measurements. In this work, we develop distributed iterative power control algorithms that use readily available measurements. Two classes of power control algorithms are proposed. Since the measurements are random, the proposed algorithms evolve stochastically and we define the convergence in terms of the mean squared error (MSE) of the power vector from the optimal power vector that is t...

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