Joint Multiuser Precoding and Scheduling with Imperfect Channel State Information at the Transmitter

This paper addresses the joint design of multiuser precoding and scheduling for downlink multiuser (MU-) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems with imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). The major issue is to control the increased co-channel-interference (CCI) caused by CSIT error among users sharing the same time-frequency resource. We propose an advanced joint multiuser precoding and scheduling technique, which uses the statistical information of the CSIT error to predict the relationship among CCI, precoding matrixes and scheduling results, and utilizes such information to improve the precoding and scheduling algorithms for better CCI control. Simulation results have shown that considerable capacity improvement can be achieved by the proposed technique in the case of imperfect CSIT.

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