Power allocation scheme in time division multiple access distributed multiple-input multiple-output interference channels

In this study, the authors propose a novel power allocation scheme in time division multiple access (TDMA)-based distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. By modelling the problem with a TDMA MIMO interference channel, the authors have derived closed-form expressions for power and time slot assigned to each MIMO transmission. Although our scheme is sub-optimal, with the aid of Jensen's inequality, it is shown to be superior to solutions based on channel inversion. In addition, the proposed scheme is compared with the optimal solution, and also with the scheme proposed by Dohler. By applying our proposed power allocation to the hierarchical cooperation strategy, the authors have shown that this scheme significantly improves the overall network throughput compared with the channel inversion solution. However, the improvement gain (which is at high-signal-to-noise ratio values) reduces when the method is compared with Dohler's solution.