Low-Complexity, Space Splitting-based User Selection in MU-MIMO for Massive Connectivity and AI-Native Traffic

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Autores principales: Lima, João Paulo S. H., Filo, Marcin L., Jayawardena, Chathura, Nikitopoulos, Konstantinos
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Publicado: 2026
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author Lima, João Paulo S. H.
Filo, Marcin L.
Jayawardena, Chathura
Nikitopoulos, Konstantinos
author_facet Lima, João Paulo S. H.
Filo, Marcin L.
Jayawardena, Chathura
Nikitopoulos, Konstantinos
contents The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven services, machine-type communications, and massive Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is reshaping wireless traffic toward dense, uplink-oriented, bursty, and latency-critical patterns. In these regimes, Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) is essential to support massive concurrent connectivity through spatial multiplexing. However, the need for frequent, low-latency scheduling decisions exposes fundamental scalability barriers in existing user selection approaches. The inherently combinatorial nature of MU-MIMO user selection leads computational complexity to grow rapidly with both the number of candidate users and spatial layers, rendering existing near-optimal heuristic methods impractical in dense and highly dynamic scenarios. This paper introduces the Space Splitting-based User Selection (SS-US) algorithm, a complexity barrier-breaking, massively parallelizable method that departs from subset-based selection by constructing orthonormal spatial bases and independently matching users to spatial directions. Simulation results across diverse MIMO configurations, channel conditions, and user densities show that SS-US reduces computational complexity by over three orders of magnitude while achieving spectral efficiency comparable to state-of-the-art practical baselines.
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spellingShingle Low-Complexity, Space Splitting-based User Selection in MU-MIMO for Massive Connectivity and AI-Native Traffic
Lima, João Paulo S. H.
Filo, Marcin L.
Jayawardena, Chathura
Nikitopoulos, Konstantinos
Signal Processing
The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven services, machine-type communications, and massive Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is reshaping wireless traffic toward dense, uplink-oriented, bursty, and latency-critical patterns. In these regimes, Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) is essential to support massive concurrent connectivity through spatial multiplexing. However, the need for frequent, low-latency scheduling decisions exposes fundamental scalability barriers in existing user selection approaches. The inherently combinatorial nature of MU-MIMO user selection leads computational complexity to grow rapidly with both the number of candidate users and spatial layers, rendering existing near-optimal heuristic methods impractical in dense and highly dynamic scenarios. This paper introduces the Space Splitting-based User Selection (SS-US) algorithm, a complexity barrier-breaking, massively parallelizable method that departs from subset-based selection by constructing orthonormal spatial bases and independently matching users to spatial directions. Simulation results across diverse MIMO configurations, channel conditions, and user densities show that SS-US reduces computational complexity by over three orders of magnitude while achieving spectral efficiency comparable to state-of-the-art practical baselines.
title Low-Complexity, Space Splitting-based User Selection in MU-MIMO for Massive Connectivity and AI-Native Traffic
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13952