#!/usr/bin/env python # coding: utf-8 # # Optimal Power and Bandwidth Allocation in a Gaussian Channel # by Robert Gowers, Roger Hill, Sami Al-Izzi, Timothy Pollington and Keith Briggs # # from Boyd and Vandenberghe, Convex Optimization, exercise 4.62 page 210 # # Consider a system in which a central node transmits messages to $n$ receivers. Each receiver channel $i \in \{1,...,n\}$ has a transmit power $P_i$ and bandwidth $W_i$. A fraction of the total power and bandwidth is allocated to each channel, such that $\sum_{i=1}^{n}P_i = P_{tot}$ and $\sum_{i=1}^{n}W_i = W_{tot}$. Given some utility function of the bit rate of each channel, $u_i(R_i)$, the objective is to maximise the total utility $U = \sum_{i=1}^{n}u_i(R_i)$. # # Assuming that each channel is corrupted by Gaussian white noise, the signal to noise ratio is given by $\beta_i P_i/W_i$. This means that the bit rate is given by: # # $R_i = \alpha_i W_i \log_2(1+\beta_iP_i/W_i)$ # # where $\alpha_i$ and $\beta_i$ are known positive constants. # # One of the simplest utility functions is the data rate itself, which also gives a convex objective function. # # The optimisation problem can be thus be formulated as: # # minimise $\sum_{i=1}^{n}-\alpha_i W_i \log_2(1+\beta_iP_i/W_i)$ # # subject to $\sum_{i=1}^{n}P_i = P_{tot} \quad \sum_{i=1}^{n}W_i = W_{tot} \quad P \succeq 0 \quad W \succeq 0$ # # Although this is a convex optimisation problem, it must be rewritten in DCP form since $P_i$ and $W_i$ are variables and DCP prohibits dividing one variable by another directly. In order to rewrite the problem in DCP format, we utilise the $\texttt{kl_div}$ function in CVXPY, which calculates the Kullback-Leibler divergence. # # $\text{kl_div}(x,y) = x\log(x/y)-x+y$ # # $-R_i = \text{kl_div}(\alpha_i W_i, \alpha_i(W_i+\beta_iP_i)) - \alpha_i\beta_iP_i$ # # Now that the objective function is in DCP form, the problem can be solved using CVXPY. # In[1]: #!/usr/bin/env python3 # @author: R. Gowers, S. Al-Izzi, T. Pollington, R. Hill & K. Briggs import numpy as np import cvxpy as cp # In[2]: def optimal_power(n, a_val, b_val, P_tot=1.0, W_tot=1.0): # Input parameters: α and β are constants from R_i equation n = len(a_val) if n != len(b_val): print('alpha and beta vectors must have same length!') return 'failed', np.nan, np.nan, np.nan P = cp.Variable(shape=n) W = cp.Variable(shape=n) alpha = cp.Parameter(shape=n) beta = cp.Parameter(shape=n) alpha.value = np.array(a_val) beta.value = np.array(b_val) # This function will be used as the objective so must be DCP; # i.e. elementwise multiplication must occur inside kl_div, # not outside otherwise the solver does not know if it is DCP... R = cp.kl_div(cp.multiply(alpha, W), cp.multiply(alpha, W + cp.multiply(beta, P))) - \ cp.multiply(alpha, cp.multiply(beta, P)) objective = cp.Minimize(cp.sum(R)) constraints = [P>=0.0, W>=0.0, cp.sum(P)-P_tot==0.0, cp.sum(W)-W_tot==0.0] prob = cp.Problem(objective, constraints) prob.solve() return prob.status, -prob.value, P.value, W.value # ## Example # # Consider the case where there are 5 channels, $n=5$, $\alpha = \beta = (2.0,2.2,2.4,2.6,2.8)$, $P_{\text{tot}} = 0.5$ and $W_{\text{tot}}=1$. # In[3]: np.set_printoptions(precision=3) n = 5 # number of receivers in the system a_val = np.arange(10,n+10)/(1.0*n) # α b_val = np.arange(10,n+10)/(1.0*n) # β P_tot = 0.5 W_tot = 1.0 status, utility, power, bandwidth = optimal_power(n, a_val, b_val, P_tot, W_tot) print('Status: {}'.format(status)) print('Optimal utility value = {:.4g}'.format(utility)) print('Optimal power level:\n{}'.format(power)) print('Optimal bandwidth:\n{}'.format(bandwidth))