Spectral Efficiency and Fairness for Opportunistic Round Robin Scheduling

In this paper we analyze the Opportunistic Round Robin (ORR) scheduling algorithm [1], [2]. This algorithm is able to exploit multiuser diversity (MUD) and at the same time provide short-term fairness between the users in a wireless cellular network. We analyze the spectral efficiency and the fairness for two scenarios. In the first scenario all the users have the same average carrier-to-noise ratios (CNR) and for the second scenario the users have different average CNRs. For the first scenario the absolute MUD is exploited while we exploit the so-called relative MUD between the users for the second scenario. The advantages and disadvantages of the different ORR implementations are highlighted by analyzing plots of our closed-form expressions.