Joint Time-Frequency Domain Proportional Fair Scheduler with HARQ for 3GPP LTE Systems

This paper explores the potential gain of joint diversity in both frequency domain and time domain which can be exploited to achieve spectral efficiency gains whilst simultaneously facilitating QoS/fairness in an OFDMA system (particularly in 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)). The performance of several joint time-frequency schedulers is investigated. Simulation results show that joint time frequency schedulers achieve significantly superior performance compared to a more conventional time domain (only) proportional fair scheduler. The joint schemes show promising throughput gain while meeting stringent fairness criteria.