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Resource allocation for transmit hybrid beamforming in decoupled millimeter wave multiuser-MIMO downlink
This paper presents a study on joint radio resource allocation and hybrid precoding in multicarrier massive multiple-input multiple-output communications for 5G cellular networks. In this paper, we present the resource allocation algorithm to maximize the proportional fairness (PF) spectral efficiency under the per subchannel power and the beamforming rank constraints. Two heuristic algorithms are designed. The proportional fairness hybrid beamforming algorithm provides the transmit precoder with a proportional fair spectral efficiency among users for the desired number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. Then, we transform the number of RF chains or rank constrained optimization problem into convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problem, which can be solved by standard techniques. Inspired by the formulated convex SDP problem, a low-complexity, two-step, PF-relaxed optimization algorithm has been provided for the formulated convex optimization problem. Simulation results show that the proposed suboptimal solution to the relaxed optimization problem is near-optimal for the signal-to-noise ratio SNR <= 10 dB and has a performance gap not greater than 2.33 b/s/Hz within the SNR range 0-25 dB. It also outperforms the maximum throughput and PF-based hybrid beamforming schemes for sum spectral efficiency, individual spectral efficiency, and fairness index
Multiuser Switched Diversity Scheduling Schemes
Multiuser switched-diversity scheduling schemes were recently proposed in
order to overcome the heavy feedback requirements of conventional opportunistic
scheduling schemes by applying a threshold-based, distributed, and ordered
scheduling mechanism. The main idea behind these schemes is that slight
reduction in the prospected multiuser diversity gains is an acceptable
trade-off for great savings in terms of required channel-state-information
feedback messages. In this work, we characterize the achievable rate region of
multiuser switched diversity systems and compare it with the rate region of
full feedback multiuser diversity systems. We propose also a novel proportional
fair multiuser switched-based scheduling scheme and we demonstrate that it can
be optimized using a practical and distributed method to obtain the feedback
thresholds. We finally demonstrate by numerical examples that
switched-diversity scheduling schemes operate within 0.3 bits/sec/Hz from the
ultimate network capacity of full feedback systems in Rayleigh fading
conditions.Comment: Accepted at IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear 2012,
funded by NPRP grant 08-577-2-241 from QNR
Joint Channel Probing and Proportional Fair Scheduling in Wireless Networks
The design of a scheduling scheme is crucial for the efficiency and
user-fairness of wireless networks. Assuming that the quality of all user
channels is available to a central controller, a simple scheme which maximizes
the utility function defined as the sum logarithm throughput of all users has
been shown to guarantee proportional fairness. However, to acquire the channel
quality information may consume substantial amount of resources. In this work,
it is assumed that probing the quality of each user's channel takes a fraction
of the coherence time, so that the amount of time for data transmission is
reduced. The multiuser diversity gain does not always increase as the number of
users increases. In case the statistics of the channel quality is available to
the controller, the problem of sequential channel probing for user scheduling
is formulated as an optimal stopping time problem. A joint channel probing and
proportional fair scheduling scheme is developed. This scheme is extended to
the case where the channel statistics are not available to the controller, in
which case a joint learning, probing and scheduling scheme is designed by
studying a generalized bandit problem. Numerical results demonstrate that the
proposed scheduling schemes can provide significant gain over existing schemes.Comment: 26 pages, 8 figure
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