Efficient user Scheduling under Low Rate Feedback for Correlated MIMO Broadcast Channels

This paper investigates the scheduling of user signals in MIMO systems with spatially correlated channels. By maximizing an upper bound of the sum capacity, we propose a scheduling scheme which requires only a single scalar feedback from each receiving user. To further reduce the need for user information feedback and better explore the spatial correlation information, a more efficient scheduling method is also developed. This new approach only requires a 1-bit indicator from each user and selects users according to the slowly varying MIMO channel correlation information. Numerical results verify the effectiveness of our proposed schemes.