Reduced complexity precoding and scheduling algorithms for full-dimension MIMO systems

Full-dimension multiple-input multiple-output (FD-MIMO) systems, in which base stations are equipped with a large number of antennas in a two-dimensional panel, has received considerable attention from academia researchers and industry practitioners. Compared with legacy cellular communication systems, FD-MIMO systems can achieve significantly higher spectral efficiency with high order multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) transmissions. However, as high-order MU-MIMO also incurs high precoding and scheduling complexity, it is critical to reduce complexity of these operations in order to realize throughput potential of FD-MIMO systems in practice. In this paper, we propose a reduced complexity algorithm to realize the high performance precoding technique, signal-to-leakage plus noise ratio (SLNR) precoding, and propose an efficient scheduling algorithm to enable high-order MU-MIMO transmissions in FD-MIMO systems. We further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms by using system level simulations.