Transmit correlation-aided opportunistic beamforming and scheduling

Kountouris, Marios; Gesbert, David; Pittman, Lars
EUSIPCO 2006, 14th European Signal Processing Conference, September 4-8, 2006, Florence, Italy

The problem of multiuser scheduling and beamforming with partial channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) is considered here in the particular context of op- portunistic beamforming. We consider a random multi-user beamforming scheme and show how long-term statistical information of users' channels can be efficiently combined with short-term SINR feedback to increase system performance substantially over a conventional opportunistic beamforming scheme. We propose a channel estimation method to be used by the transmitter which exploits the second-order channel statistics, the fading statistics and the information contained in the instantaneous SINR feedback of random opportunistic beamforming. This coarse (low feedback-based) channel estimate is shown to be particularly valuable for the purpose of user selection, as well as for the precoding matrix design.


Type:
Conférence
City:
Florence
Date:
2006-09-04
Department:
Systèmes de Communication
Eurecom Ref:
2018
Copyright:
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