Heterogeneous Spectrum Aggregation: Coexistence From a Queue Stability Perspective.

Spectrum aggregation (SA) across heterogeneous channels, including both dedicated and shared channels, provides the potential for improving spectrum utilization and fulfilling the requirement of broadband services. Heterogeneous SA brings new technical challenges on multisystem coexistence on shared channels and the resource allocation over heterogeneous channels. In this paper, we develop an analytical framework for heterogeneous SA from a queue stability perspective. To make all systems on the shared channels stable, we design a resource allocation algorithm for the coexistence of multiple systems. Specifically, we derive the closed-form modified water-filling power control for the single-pair case by Lyapunov optimization and prove that it achieves the queue stability for all systems. Based on the results, we propose a low-complexity suboptimal resource allocation algorithm for multipair SA, which is a NP-hard problem. We partition user pairs into groups by using graph coloring and allocate the shared channels to pair groups according to the maximal weight bipartite matching model. The simulation results verify the queue stability and show that the proposed schemes outperform the conventional schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]