The reuse partitioning problem for a cellular orthogonal frequency
division multiple access (OFDMA) system with dynamic subcarrier
allocation is considered. One objective is to allocate the network
resources in an efficient way in order to maximize the system's total
throughput under individual user's quality-of-service (QoS) constraint. A
suboptimal two-step approach is used where the radio network controller
(RNC) solves the network planning problem and each base station (BS)
solves the cell throughput maximization problem. Compared with the
optimal resource allocation scheme, the approach described herein has
much lower computational complexity in the RNC. Moreover, the
communication overhead between each BS and the RNC is reduced
substantially which renders our approach more practical for delay
sensitive applications. Throughput increase is demonstrated