Cognitive MU-MIMO Scheduling in Circular Array Based Heterogeneous Networks

Future heterogeneous networks (HetNets) will have to face a great challenge of overwhelming demand of spectrum resource, due to the exponential increase in mobile internet traffic driven by a new generation of wireless devices. In this paper, we propose a spectrum sensing and scheduling scheme for circular array, in order to make better use of the spectrum resource and improve the performance of multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) in HetNets. The proposed scheme can effectively detect the users and frequency use based on angles, and schedule the users with optimized codebook. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme can achieve considerable gain in terms of throughput and users' data rate, with significantly reduced system complexity and increased efficiency.