JCCA resource allocation for video transmission in relay-enhanced OFDMA system

Resulting from the rapid growth of wireless video services in the recent years, radio resource is often inadequate in the high data rate communication environment. Under the circumstance, it is important to make full use of limited resource for efficient video transmission. Hence, we propose a joint content and channel aware (JCCA) resource allocation algorithm in relay-enhanced OFDMA system. It can maximize accumulation of allocated subcarriers’ contribution for transmitting video data so as to improve overall quality of users’ received video under resource constrained conditions. As it is described in this work, the algorithm is implemented by packet scheduling, path selection and subcarrier allocation, in which time-varying data content and channel state are jointly considered at the same time. And the two implementation schemes, JCCAG and JCCAL, are designed for JCCA resource allocation algorithm. JCCAG is executed for allocating subcarriers through global search among all subcarriers’ contribution. For reducing complexity of JCCAG, subcarriers are allocated according to the corresponding contribution towards each user on the basis of local search in JCCAL. In the simulation, we make comparison between the JCCA resource allocation algorithm and others for video transmission in relay-enhanced OFDMA system. And the comparison results are evaluated through objective and subjective criterion, respectively. It is demonstrated that the proposed algorithm can perform better in improving overall quality of users’ received video.