Comparative study of MIMO-OFDM uplink scheduling criteria

Samir Al-Ghadhban*

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Abstract

Uplink scheduling for MIMO-OFDM users is considered in this paper. Each user spatially multiplexes his data over multiple transmit antennas using V-BLAST scheme. This spatial multiplexing (SM) scheme provides high data rates while multi-user diversity obtained from scheduling improves the performance of the uplink system. The greedy scheduler selects one user at a time based on a criterion that minimizes aggregate OFDM symbol error rate. The main results of this study show that the scheduler that maximizes the optimal MIMO capacity doesn't work well for a V-BLAST system. Instead, a scheduler that maximizes the V-BLAST capacity is derived specifically from the V-BLAST detection algorithm. Furthermore, we propose and compare suboptimal schedulers that are based on the received MIMO-OFDM channels before processing. The result shows that selecting the user with maximum minimum MIMO-OFDM channel singular value performs very close to the optimal selection criteria with less processing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - MICC 2009
Subtitle of host publication2009 IEEE 9th Malaysia International Conference on Communications with a Special Workshop on Digital TV Contents
Pages15-18
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - MICC 2009: 2009 IEEE 9th Malaysia International Conference on Communications with a Special Workshop on Digital TV Contents

Keywords

  • MIMO-OFDM
  • Multiuser diversity
  • Uplink scheduling
  • V-BLAST-OFDM

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Communication

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