摘要 |
Systems and methods are disclosed for graph-based distributed parameter coordination in a communications network. In general, discrete local parameters to be coordinated among communication nodes in the communications network and their respective performance metrics, or costs, are modeled using a factor graph. Based on the factor graph, a variant of a sum-product algorithm, namely the min-sum algorithm, is applied in order for the communication nodes, through iterative message passing of reduced size messages with their neighboring communication nodes, to decide upon optimal values for the local parameters for the communication nodes that collectively optimize a global performance metric across the communications network. In one embodiment, the communications network is a wireless communications network. In one specific embodiment, the wireless communications network is a cellular communications network. |