A Novel Resource Allocation Scheme for Reducing MAP Overhead and Maximizing Throughput in MIMO-OFDM Systems

We propose a novel resource allocation scheme, which can reduce MAP overhead and maximize the throughput in the MIMO-OFDM systems. In the message based broadband access system, we need to minimize the MAP overhead since the excessive MAP overhead causes degradation of system throughput. Increasing the size of resource allocation unit can reduce MAP overhead. However, multiuser diversity gain becomes smaller as the size of re-source allocation unit increases. Therefore, we investigate joint optimization between multiuser diversity gain and MAP overhead size. Using the proposed scheme, we can reduce MAP overhead size as well as achieve high throughput.