Robust Power Allocation for Multi-Homing Heterogeneous Networks with Energy Harvesting

Abstract

Abstract To improve user’s data rate and network coverage, multi-homing heterogeneous network has been considered as a key technology in recent years. However, traditional power allocation schemes cannot provide good robustness and suppress the impact of parameter perturbation due to the random interference and channel delays. A robust power allocation algorithm is proposed for an orthogonal frequency division multiple access based multi-homing heterogeneous network under energy harvesting. Considering the channel uncertainties from base stations to users, the total data rate of all mobile terminals (MTs) is maximized under the rate outage constraint of MT. Based on the uniform distribution of uncertainty, the originally robust counterpart problem is transformed to a deterministic and convex one. The Lagrange dual decomposition theory is used to solve it. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme has good convergence and robustness.