Combined opportunistic beamforming methodology

• Published in: Journal of communications and networks Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 128 - 135
• Main Authors: Chung, Jaehak, Ji, Younggun, Kwon, Yangsoo, Kim, Seokhyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: Editorial Department of Journal of Communications and Networks 01.06.2007; 한국통신학회
• Subjects: Array signal processing; Interference; Mobile WiMAX; Multiaccess communication; Multiplexing; opportunistic multiple beamforming; scheduling; Signal to noise ratio; Throughput; Vectors; 전자/정보통신공학; scheduling; Mobile WiMAX; opportunistic multiple beamforming
• ISSN: 1229-2370; 1976-5541
• DOI: 10.1109/JCN.2007.6182831

A combined opportunistic multiple beamforming method is presented that the first beam is designed with an aid of channel state information using uplink mid-amble and other beams are orthogonally generated to the first beam sequentially. The power allocation with SINR feedback increases overall throughput for the de- centralized systems. The advantages of the proposed scheme is that the first beam is not interfered by other beams guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) and other orthogonal beams are operated opportunistically to obtain multi user diversity. The computer simulation demonstrates that the proposed scheme is effective at a small number of users, which is common in cellular systems, and outperforms conventional spatial division multiple access (SDMA) opportunistic beamforming methods.