ALLOCATING TRANSMISSION POWER TO CLIENT DEVICES IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

Described herein are systems and methods for allocating transmission power in a communications network that are based at least in part on fairness considerations. The disclosed technologies factor the needs and requirements of individual client devices (e.g., subscribers or users) into the process for allocating transmission power using a satisfaction metric. The disclosed technologies do not necessarily optimize the throughput or output of the transmitter as in typical waterfilling algorithms, but rather aim to satisfy the individual requirements of client devices. To do this, the disclosed technologies calculate a satisfaction metric that is based on quality-of-service (QoS) parameters of individual client devices.