Throughput versus Fairness: Channel-Aware Scheduling in Multiple Antenna Downlink

Channel aware and opportunistic scheduling algorithms exploit the channel knowledge and fading to increase the average throughput. Alternatively, each user could be served equally in order to maximize fairness. Obviously, there is a tradeoff between average throughput and fairness in the system. In...

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Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2009-03-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/271540