Abstract:To deal with the adaptive resource allocation problem in multiuser OFDM systems, a new adaptive subcarrier allocation scheme is proposed. In the subcarrier allocation process, the subcarrier number of every user is firstly determined by relaxing the proportional constraint of the user rate, and then under the premise that the total power is equally allocated in all the subcarriers, the subcarrier allocation is realized by the method that the minimum proportion rate user has the priority to be chosen into the subcarriers. A novel artificial bee colony-simulated annealing (ABC-SA) power allocation scheme based on artificial bee colony algorithm and simulated annealing algorithm is proposed in the power allocation, and the power optimization among all users is achieved by the global search of the ABC-SA algorithm, in addition, the power allocation among the subcarriers of each user is carried out by the method of the equal power allocation and the maximum capacity of multiuser OFDM systems is ultimately obtained. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme, compared with other schemes, can effectively improve the throughput capacity of the OFDM system while taking into account the fairness of users. Therefore, the effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified.