Low-Complexity Downlink User Selection for Massive MIMO Systems

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1072-1083

  Liu, Haijing ^a   Gao, Hui ^a   Yang, Shaoshi ^b   Lv, Tiejun ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Low complexity; massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO); system sum rate; user fairness; user selection

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FEEDBACK CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

INSTANTANEOUS CHANNEL STATE INFORMATIONS; LOCATION DEPENDENTS; LOW COMPLEXITY; LOW COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; SMALL-SCALE FADING; SUM-RATE; USER FAIRNESS; USER SELECTION;

MIMO SYSTEMS;

EID: 85027416583     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2015.2422475     Document Type: Article

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