Joint User Scheduling and Precoding for XL-MIMO Systems With Imperfect CSI

We propose an algorithm for joint precoding and user scheduling in multiple-input multiple-output systems with extremely-large aperture arrays, assuming realistic channel conditions and imperfect channel estimates. The use of statistical channel state information (CSI) for user scheduling, and a proper selection of the set of users for which CSI is updated allow for obtaining an improved achievable sum spectral efficiency. We also confirm that the effect of imperfect CSI in the precoding vector design and the cost of training must be taken into consideration for realistic performance prediction.