Power allocation for OFDM transmisson with DF relaying

In this paper we consider an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) transmission scheme with a relay. Symbols sent by the source may or may not be retransmitted during a second time slot by the relay, which is assumed to be of the decode-and-forward (DF) type. For each carrier the destination implements maximum ratio combining. Assuming perfect CSI (channel state information) knowledge the paper investigates the power allocation problem for rate maximization of the scheme. Both cases of a sum power constraint, and of individual power constraints at the source and at the relay are tackled. The theoretical analysis is illustrated by numerical results for both types of constraints.