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Dynamic Resource Allocation in OFDM Systems: An Overview of Cross-Layer Optimization Principles and Techniques Mathias Bohge, James Gross, and Adam Wolisz, TKN Group, TU Berlin Michael Meyer, Ericsson GmbH Abstract Recently, a lot of research effort has been spent on cross-layer system design. It has been shown that cross-layer mechanisms (i.e., policies) potentially provide sig- nificant performance gains for various systems. In this article we review several aspects of cross-layer system optimization regarding wireless OFDM systems. We discuss basic optimization models and present selected heuristic approaches realiz- ing cross-layer policies by means of dynamic resource allocation. Two specific areas are treated separately: models and dynamic approaches for single transmit- ter/receiver pairs (i.e., a point-to-point communication scenario) as well as models and approaches for point-to-multipoint communication scenarios (e.g., the downlink of a wireless cell). This article provides basic knowledge in order to investigate future OFDM cross-layer-optimization issues. s ever higher data rates are to be conveyed by lent physical layer properties, they also offer interesting wireless communication devices, the bandwidth opportunities regarding link layer aspects. Due to the relative- requirements of modern wireless equipment are ly fine granularity of the subchannels, resource requirements A constantly increasing. Since the frequency-selec- of terminals can be