Type
ArticleKAUST Department
Electrical Engineering ProgramComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Communication Theory Lab
Date
2012-06-27Preprint Posting Date
2012-04-12Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/562311
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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. © 2012 IEEE.Sponsors
This paper was made possible by NPRP grant #08-577-2-241 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of the Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.arXiv
arXiv:1204.2649ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/TCOMM.2012.062512.110196