A distributed downlink scheduling method for multi-user communication with zero-forcing beamforming

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4508-4521

  Mundarath, Jayakrishnan C ^a   Ramanathan, Parameswaran ^b   Van Veen, Barry D ^b  

^a FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; MIMO; Multi user selection; Zero forcing

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MIM DEVICES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATE EXPRESSIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; CONTROL OVERHEADS; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING; DOWNLINK SCHEDULING; LOW COMPLEXITIES; LOW OVERHEADS; MIMO; MULTI-USER SELECTION; MULTIPLE ANTENNAS; MULTIPLE USERS; OPTIMAL SCHEMES; RATE INCREASES; RATE PERFORMANCES; SCHEDULING METHODS; SCHEDULING PROBLEMS; SUM RATES; TIME FREQUENCIES; USER COMMUNICATIONS; USER SCHEDULING; ZERO-FORCING;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 57149147866     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2008.060466     Document Type: Article

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