A New Approach to User Scheduling in Massive Multi-User MIMO Broadcast Channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1481-1495

  Lee, Gilwon ^a   Sung, Youngchul ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Multi user MIMO; two phase feedback; two stage beamforming; user scheduling

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MIMO SYSTEMS; RADIO BROADCASTING; SCHEDULING;

CHANNEL QUALITY INDICATORS; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACKS; MULTI-USER MIMO; MULTIUSER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUTS (MU-MIMO); RANDOM BEAMFORMING (RBF); SEMI ORTHOGONAL USER SELECTIONS (SUS); TWO PHASE; USER SCHEDULING;

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION;

EID: 85039805262     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2786670     Document Type: Article

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