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Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems in combination with orthogonal frequency division multiple access and space division multiple access are flexible, spectrally efficient and of high capacity. These systems can allocate frequency, time, and space resources adaptively among mobile stations. Optimal resource allocation (RA) for maximizing the sum rate is usually too complex for practical applications, hence suboptimal algorithms are required. The performance of RA algorithms are degraded due to imperfections in channel state information at transmitter (CSIT). Thus, techniques that make the RA algorithm, robust against CSIT errors are favorable. In this paper, two novel suboptimal grouping algorithms are introduced that are shown to achieve better sum rate-complexity and fairness-complexity performances. A novel index is proposed to measure the efficiency of RA algorithms, which takes into account sum rate and complexity simultaneously. Moreover, the effect of erroneous CSIT on sum rate is investigated and it is shown that performance of the proposed RA algorithms with erroneous CSIT are superior to the existing schemes. Finally, fairness performance of the proposed RA algorithms are evaluated, which are shown to be the same if not superior to other existing algorithms.
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Majidzadeh, M., Eslami, M. Efficient Suboptimal Resource Allocation Algorithms for Multiuser MIMO-OFDMA Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 82, 1967–1985 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2325-2
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