User Allocation with Round-Robin Scheduling Sequence for Distributed Antenna System

One of key technologies in the fifth generation mobile communications is a distributed antenna system (DAS). In the DAS inter-user interference effects on its spectrum efficiency as distributed antennas are located closely. Round-robin (RR) scheduling is known as a scheme that achieves a trade-off between computational complexity and spectrum efficiency. In this research user equipment (UE) allocation scheme for RR scheduling are proposed. The proposed scheme determines the phases of UE allocation sequence that is pre-determined for low complexity. Numerical results obtained through computer simulation have shown that maximum selection that sequentially searches the phase with the maximum tentative throughput realizes the largest spectrum efficiency next to full search. The system throughput increases as the number of UEs increases in 2-user RR scheduling.