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Rate-Optimal Multiuser Scheduling with Reduced Feedback Load and Analysis of Delay Effects

  • Vegard Hassel1Email author,
  • Mohamed-Slim Alouini2,
  • Geir E Øien1 and
  • David Gesbert3
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking20062006:036424

https://doi.org/10.1155/WCN/2006/36424

©  Vegard Hassel et al. 2006

Received: 30 September 2005

Accepted: 26 May 2006

Published: 17 August 2006

Abstract

We propose a feedback algorithm for wireless networks that always collects feedback from the user with the best channel conditions and has a significant reduction in feedback load compared to full feedback. The algorithm is based on a carrier-to-noise threshold, and closed-form expressions for the feedback load as well as the threshold value that minimizes the feedback load have been found. We analyze two delay scenarios. The first scenario is where the scheduling decision is based on outdated channel estimates, and the second scenario is where both the scheduling decision and the adaptive modulation are based on outdated channel estimates.

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Authors’ Affiliations

(1)
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(2)
Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ)
(3)
Mobile Communications Department, Eurécom Institute

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