A low complexity user scheduling algorithm for uplink multiuser MIMO systems

  • Authors:
  • Yangyang Zhang;Chunlin Ji;Yi Liu;W. Malik;D. O'Brien;D. Edwards

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Eng. Sci., Oxford Univ., Oxford;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A low complexity user scheduling algorithm based on a novel adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo (AMCMC) method is proposed to achieve the maximal sum capacity in an uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiuser system. Compared with the existing scheduling algorithms, our algorithm is not only more efficient but also converges to within 99% of the optimal capacity obtained by exhaustive search. We demonstrate the convergence of the proposed scheduling algorithm and study the tradeoff between its complexity and performance.