Performance Analysis of Multiuser MIMO Systems with Scheduling and Antenna Selection

In this paper, we present a performance analysis of the user scheduling for the multiuser MIMO systems exploiting the multiuser and antenna diversities while maintaining the fairness among the users. We present different scheduling schemes including absolute throughput-based scheduling, normalized throughput-based scheduling, absolute SNR-based scheduling, and normalized SNR-based scheduling schemes. We use an antenna selection scheme to overcome the drawback of channel hardening in multiuser MIMO systems. This also improves the system performance and reduces the system complexity. Using mathematical analysis and numerical simulations, we compare the presented schemes and show their significant advantages.