Adaptive resource management for a MC-CDMA system with mixed QoS classes using a cross layer strategy

Wireless communications are experiencing a great increasing demand, both user and bandwidth capacity. The efficiency in the resource management and usage will be a dramatically important issue since spectrum and power is a scarce resource, even more in the wireless environment. Under these circumstances, adaptive resource management will lead to high spectral efficiency rates and power saving algorithms. Previous works have focused on increasing the system capacity by means of complex power and rate adaptation techniques at the expense of unfair systems. The present proposal proposes a low complexity algorithm for adaptive resource allocation considering different quality of service classes in a Multicarrier-Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) system, which is considered according to several researches, as a promising air interface scheme for the Beyond 3G systems.