The multiuser diversity has a potential to provide very significant performance boosts to wireless system. Combining multi-element antenna systems with radio resource management are the practical solution to increase system capacity in multiuser envir...
The multiuser diversity has a potential to provide very significant performance boosts to wireless system. Combining multi-element antenna systems with radio resource management are the practical solution to increase system capacity in multiuser environment. In this thesis, the system is limited in a way that the station should be able to run scheduling with channel quality information reported from mobile users. Two utility functions are proposed for low SNR and high SNR respectively and the algorithm to maximize a utility function is derived.Complexity of MIMO scheduler is considered in two aspects: the computational complexity of a algorithm and the amount of feedback information. To reduce a computational complexity of scheduling, the heuristic algorithm named as the max-SINR algorithm is proposed in the broadcast channel that offers remarkable computational speed-up and shows little performance gap compared with the optimal algorithm. The max-norm algorithm is proposed in the multiple access channel. It is proved that max-norm algorithm is equivalent to the full search algorithm for low SNR and shows asymptotically same performance with the full search algorithm for high SNR.In order to reduce the amount of feedback, the selective multiuser diversity (MUD) concept, that the only channel having larger channel quality than the threshold level is reported, was adopted. By adopting the selective MUD, it is possible to reduce the amount of feedback significantly with little performance degradation by setting the threshold level properly.