A Throughput Analysis for Opportunistic Beamforming with Quantized Feedback

Opportunistic schemes employing multiple beams have recently attracted significant interest due to the capability to achieve both multiuser diversity and spatial multiplexing gain at limited feedback load. In this paper we explore the effect of the feedback quantization on the performance of these schemes. We derive a closed-form expression of the system throughput with and without feedback quantization. By doing so, we analytically assess the impact of the number of terminals and the restriction in the feedback bandwidth. It is shown that most of the throughput is preserved by using a few quantization bits