Evaluation of OFDMA resource allocation algorithms in broadband wireless access networks

Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) is gaining interest due to the increasing demand of high-quality mobile wireless systems. In this context Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is one of the most promising and researched physical transmission technologies. In OFDMA, data have to be mapped into a time-frequency matrix before the actual transmission. Efficiency, power consumption, Quality of Service (QoS) and complexity factors should be taken into account by mapping algorithms. In this paper, we focus on the OFDMA resource allocation problem in BWA networks. Through extensive simulation in different scenarios, performance of several resource allocation algorithms is evaluated.