Open AccessUser Selection Algorithms for MU‐MIMO Systems with Coordinated Beamforming
Author(s) -
MacielBarboza Fermín Marcelo,
SorianoEquigua Leonel,
SánchezGarcía Jaime,
CastilloSoria Francisco Rubén,
Topete Victor Hugo Castillo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
etri journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2233-7326
pISSN - 1225-6463
DOI - 10.4218/etrij.16.0114.1177
Subject(s) - beamforming , base station , telecommunications link , mimo , computer science , selection (genetic algorithm) , interference (communication) , algorithm , selection algorithm , multi user mimo , computational complexity theory , computer engineering , real time computing , computer network , telecommunications , artificial intelligence , channel (broadcasting)
In this paper, we propose two novel user selection algorithms for multiuser multiple‐input and multiple‐output downlink wireless systems, in which both a base station (BS) and mobile stations (MSs) are equipped with multiple antennas. Linear transmit beamforming at the BS and receive combining at the MSs are used to avoid interference between users and find a better sum‐rate capacity performance. An optimal technique for selecting users would entail an exhaustive search, which in practice becomes computationally complex for a realistic number of users. Suboptimal algorithms with low complexity are proposed for a coordinated beamforming scheme. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithms is better than that provided by previous algorithms and is very close to an optimal approach with reduced complexity.