Joint Power Control and Scheduling for Context-Aware Unicast Cellular Networks

With the widely use of smart devices and rapid development of communication technologies, it becomes easier for base stations to obtain the context information of users. The context information can be utilized to optimize system resource allocation. This paper focuses on context-aware unicast cellular networks. Assuming that some channel state information (CSI) can be predicted based on user context such as user location and moving pattern, joint power control and transmission scheduling is applied to minimize the transmission energy consumption. By reducing the energy minimization problem to a semi-assignment problem, our proposed algorithm can find the optimal solution in polynomial time. Simulation results show that the proposed context-aware scheme outperforms the traditional round-robin scheduler and opportunistic scheduler, which do not consider the feature of context-awareness.