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Enhanced multiuser random beamforming: dealing with the not so large number of users case

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Enhanced multiuser random beamforming: dealing with the not so large number of users case
We consider the downlink of a wireless system with an M-antenna base station and K single-antenna users. A limited feedback-based scheduling and precoding scenario is considered that builds on the multiuser random beamforming (RBF). Such a scheme was shown to yield the same capacity scaling, in terms of multiplexing and multiuser diversity gain, as the optimal full CSIT-based (channel state information at transmitter) precoding scheme, in the large number of users K regime. Unfortunately, for more practically relevant (low to moderate) K values, RBF yields degraded performance. In this work, we investigate solutions to this problem. We introduce a two-stage framework that decouples the scheduling and beamforming problems. In our scenario, RBF is exploited to identify good, spatially separable, users in a first stage. In the second stage, the initial random beams are refined based on the available feedback to offer improved performance toward the selected users. Specifically, we propose...
Marios Kountouris, David Gesbert, Thomas Sälz
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where JSAC
Authors Marios Kountouris, David Gesbert, Thomas Sälzer
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