Medium access diversity with uplink-downlink duality and transmit beamforming in multiple-antenna wireless networks

Miao Zhao, Zhenghao Zhang, Yuanyuan Yang

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Abstract

In a multiuser wireless system, multiuser diversity for opportunistic scheduling has been extensively studied for high-rate data transmission. In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol named Medium Access Diversity with Uplink-Downlink Duality and Transmit Beamforming (MAD-UDD/TB). In addition to aggressively utilizing multiuser gains, it takes advantage of uplink-downlink duality and transmit beamforming, which are the transmitting and receiving strategies used in a multiple antenna environment for simultaneous packet transmissions to multiple distinct users. These techniques effectively leverage the effect of multiuser diversity and greatly improve network throughput by taking into account the opportunistic scheduling among multiple users to prioritize data transmissions. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed protocol achieves much better performance than other medium access diversity and auto rate schemes with minimal additional overhead.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE GLOBECOM 2006 - 2006 Global Telecommunications Conference
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2006
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE GLOBECOM 2006 - 2006 Global Telecommunications Conference - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: 27 Nov 20061 Dec 2006

Conference

ConferenceIEEE GLOBECOM 2006 - 2006 Global Telecommunications Conference
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period27/11/061/12/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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