System-level performance evaluation of winner system

This paper investigates the performance of Beyond 3G system following the requirements defined in WINNER (phase I and II) Project and concentrates on two major topics. The first one is a novel frequency domain mutual-information based adaptive coding and modulation (MI-ACM), the second one is the impact of traffic modeling and scheduling on delay and spectral efficiency of such systems. Different MIMO schemes, including Alamouti and PARC utilizing Grid of Beams and SDMA, are examined on the system-level in terms of spectral efficiency and packet delays.