Fast Group Scheduling for Downlink Large-Scale Multi-Group Multicast Beamforming

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Chong, Dong, Min, Liang, Ben, Afana, Ali, Ahmed, Yahia
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author Zhang, Chong
Dong, Min
Liang, Ben
Afana, Ali
Ahmed, Yahia
author_facet Zhang, Chong
Dong, Min
Liang, Ben
Afana, Ali
Ahmed, Yahia
contents Next-generation wireless networks need to handle massive user access effectively. This paper addresses the problem of joint group scheduling and multicast beamforming for downlink transmission with many active user groups. Aiming to maximize the minimum user throughput, we propose a three-phase approach to tackle this difficult joint optimization problem efficiently. In Phase 1, we utilize the optimal multicast beamforming structure obtained recently to find the group-channel directions for all groups. We propose two low-complexity group scheduling algorithms in Phase 2, which determine the subset of groups in each time slot sequentially and the total number of time slots required for all groups. The first algorithm measures the level of spatial separation among groups and selects the dissimilar groups that maximize the minimum user rate into the same time slot. In contrast, the second algorithm first identifies the spatially correlated groups via a learning-based clustering method based on the group-channel directions, and then separates spatially similar groups into different time slots. Finally, the multicast beamformers for the scheduled groups are obtained in each time slot by a computationally efficient method. Simulation results show that our proposed scheduling methods can effectively capture the level of spatial separation among groups to improve the minimum user throughput over the conventional approach that serves all groups in a single time slot or one group per time slot, and can be executed with low computational complexity.
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spellingShingle Fast Group Scheduling for Downlink Large-Scale Multi-Group Multicast Beamforming
Zhang, Chong
Dong, Min
Liang, Ben
Afana, Ali
Ahmed, Yahia
Information Theory
Signal Processing
Next-generation wireless networks need to handle massive user access effectively. This paper addresses the problem of joint group scheduling and multicast beamforming for downlink transmission with many active user groups. Aiming to maximize the minimum user throughput, we propose a three-phase approach to tackle this difficult joint optimization problem efficiently. In Phase 1, we utilize the optimal multicast beamforming structure obtained recently to find the group-channel directions for all groups. We propose two low-complexity group scheduling algorithms in Phase 2, which determine the subset of groups in each time slot sequentially and the total number of time slots required for all groups. The first algorithm measures the level of spatial separation among groups and selects the dissimilar groups that maximize the minimum user rate into the same time slot. In contrast, the second algorithm first identifies the spatially correlated groups via a learning-based clustering method based on the group-channel directions, and then separates spatially similar groups into different time slots. Finally, the multicast beamformers for the scheduled groups are obtained in each time slot by a computationally efficient method. Simulation results show that our proposed scheduling methods can effectively capture the level of spatial separation among groups to improve the minimum user throughput over the conventional approach that serves all groups in a single time slot or one group per time slot, and can be executed with low computational complexity.
title Fast Group Scheduling for Downlink Large-Scale Multi-Group Multicast Beamforming
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10002