Sum-rate analysis of spectrum sharing spatial multiplexing MIMO systems with zero-forcing and multiuser diversity

This paper considers a multiuser spectrum sharing (SS) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with zero-forcing (ZF) operating in a Rayleigh fading environment. We provide an asymptotic sum-rate analysis to investigate the effects of different parameters on the multiuser diversity gain. For a ZF SS spatial multiplexing system with scheduling, the asymptotic sum-rate scales like N
_t
log
₂
(Q(
^{Nt Np}
√K - 1)/N
_t
), where N
_p
denotes the number of antennas of primary receiver, Q is the interference temperature, and K represents the number of secondary transmitters.