We propose a distributed user selection strategy in a network MIMO setting with $M$ base stations serving $K$ users. Each base station is equipped with $L$ antennas, where $LM \ll K$. The conventional selection strategy is based on a well known technique called semi-orthogonal user selection when the zero-forcing beamforming (ZFBF) is adopted. Such technique, however, requires perfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT), which might not be available or need large feedback overhead. This paper proposes an alternative distributed user selection technique where each user sets a timer that is inversely proportional to his channel quality indicator (CQI), as a means to reduce the feedback overhead. The proposed strategy allows only the user with the highest CQI to respond with a feedback. Such technique, however, remains collision free only if the transmission time is shorter than the difference between the strongest user timer and the second strongest user timer. To overcome the situation of longer transmission times, the paper proposes another feedback strategy that is based on the theory of compressive sensing, where collision is allowed and all users encode their feedback information and send it back to the base-stations simultaneously. The paper shows that the problem can be formulated as a block sparse recovery problem which is agnostic on the transmission time, which makes it a good alternative to the timer approach when collision is dominant.


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    Title :

    Distributed User Selection in Network MIMO Systems with Limited Feedback




    Publication date :

    2015-09-01


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    315940 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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