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Exploiting Spatial Interference Alignment and Opportunistic Scheduling in the Downlink of Interference Limited Systems
In this paper we analyze the performance of single stream and multi-stream
spatial multiplexing (SM) systems employing opportunistic scheduling in the
presence of interference. In the proposed downlink framework, every active user
reports the post-processing signal-to-interference-plus-noise-power-ratio
(post-SINR) or the receiver specific mutual information (MI) to its own
transmitter using a feedback channel. The combination of scheduling and
multi-antenna receiver processing leads to substantial interference suppression
gain. Specifically, we show that opportunistic scheduling exploits spatial
interference alignment (SIA) property inherent to a multi-user system for
effective interference mitigation. We obtain bounds for the outage probability
and the sum outage capacity for single stream and multi stream SM employing
real or complex encoding for a symmetric interference channel model.
The techniques considered in this paper are optimal in different operating
regimes. We show that the sum outage capacity can be maximized by reducing the
SM rate to a value less than the maximum allowed value. The optimum SM rate
depends on the number of interferers and the number of available active users.
In particular, we show that the generalized multi-user SM (MU SM) method
employing real-valued encoding provides a performance that is either
comparable, or significantly higher than that of MU SM employing complex
encoding. A combination of analysis and simulation is used to describe the
trade-off between the multiplexing rate and sum outage capacity for different
antenna configurations
Advanced Radio Resource Management for Multi Antenna Packet Radio Systems
In this paper, we propose fairness-oriented packet scheduling (PS) schemes
with power-efficient control mechanism for future packet radio systems. In
general, the radio resource management functionality plays an important role in
new OFDMA based networks. The control of the network resource division among
the users is performed by packet scheduling functionality based on maximizing
cell coverage and capacity satisfying, and certain quality of service
requirements. Moreover, multiantenna transmit-receive schemes provide
additional flexibility to packet scheduler functionality. In order to mitigate
inter-cell and co-channel interference problems in OFDMA cellular networks soft
frequency reuse with different power masks patterns is used. Stemming from the
earlier enhanced proportional fair scheduler studies for single-input
multiple-output (SIMO) and multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) systems, we
extend the development of efficient packet scheduling algorithms by adding
transmit power considerations in the overall priority metrics calculations and
scheduling decisions. Furthermore, we evaluate the proposed scheduling schemes
by simulating practical orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)
based packet radio system in terms of throughput, coverage and fairness
distribution among users. As a concrete example, under reduced overall transmit
power constraint and unequal power distribution for different sub-bands, we
demonstrate that by using the proposed power-aware multi-user scheduling
schemes, significant coverage and fairness improvements in the order of 70% and
20%, respectively, can be obtained, at the expense of average throughput loss
of only 15%.Comment: 14 Pages, IJWM
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