Research Article

Fairness Consideration of Scheduling for Real-Time Services in 4G Systems

Table 3

Modulation and coding parameters for OFDMA systems.

Level () Modulation (coding rate ) Required SINR ()

QPSK () 5 dB
QPSK () 8 dB
16-QAM () 10.5 dB
16-QAM () 14 dB
64-QAM () 16 dB
64-QAM () 18 dB
64-QAM () 20 dB