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Joint User Scheduling, Relay Selection, and Power Allocation for Multi-Antenna Opportunistic Beamforming Systems
Wenbin Sun1, Mingliang Tao1, Xin Yang1
1School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.
A new multi-antenna opportunistic beamforming-based relay (MOBR) system enhances communication rates by leveraging multi-user and multi-relay gains. This advanced technique surpasses traditional opportunistic beamforming, offering improved performance in 5G and beyond networks.
Area of Science:
- Wireless communication systems
- Signal processing
- Information theory
Background:
- Opportunistic beamforming (OBF) enhances 5G/B5G systems but faces performance saturation with many users.
- Achievable rates in OBF systems can be limited due to user capacity constraints.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce a multi-antenna opportunistic beamforming-based relay (MOBR) system for improved communication performance.
- To maximize the achievable rate in wireless systems by combining multi-user and multi-relay selection gains.
Main Methods:
- Formulated an optimization problem to maximize the achievable rate.
- Addressed the NP-hard optimization problem by dividing it into two suboptimal issues.
- Applied a joint iterative algorithm to solve the suboptimal issues.
Main Results:
- The proposed MOBR system demonstrated a higher achievable rate compared to conventional OBF systems.
- Simulation results confirmed superior performance over other beamforming schemes, especially with limited feedback.
Conclusions:
- The MOBR system effectively overcomes the rate saturation limitations of traditional OBF.
- This approach offers a promising solution for enhancing user quality of service (QoS) in future wireless networks.
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