Interactions Between Multiuser Diversity and Spatial Diversity Techniques in an Interference-Limited Environment

This paper investigates the interaction between multiuser diversity and spatial diversity in an interference-limited environment based on post-receiver-processing signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) distributions. If opportunistic scheduling is employed, spatial diversity effects limit the achievable multiuser diversity gain. This paper quantifies the interaction by using order statistic theory and shows a spatial diversity technique with a larger SINR variance can be more effective under opportunistic scheduling. Through analysis and simulations, the authors show that the cyclic delay diversity technique gets the most benefit from the opportunistic scheduling among likely spatial diversity techniques and outperforms space time block coding (STBC), even though STBC is generally considered the most effective transmit diversity technique in a noise-limited environment.

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