User Set Elimination in Allocation Sequences of RR Scheduling for Distributed Antenna Transmission

Abstract

In this paper, user set elimination in the allocation sequences of round-robin (RR) scheduling for distributed antenna transmission (DAT) is proposed. In prior research, the initial phase selection of the user equipment (UE) allocation sequences in RR scheduling has been investigated. However, all of UE sets are included without taking their throughputs into account. Thus, a UE set is assigned even through its total throughput is the lowest. The proposed scheme eliminates the specific UE sets from the RR scheduling sequence according to the expected total throughput of those UE sets. In addition, the initial phase selection is applied to the remaining UE sets. Numerical results obtained through computer simulation show that fairness index as well as system throughput improve when the ratio of eliminated UE sets is small.