Downlink Scheduling and Resource Allocation for 5G MIMO Multicarrier Systems

Emerging 5G wireless communication technology is envisioned to significantly enhance the performance. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for effective cross-layer downlink scheduling and resource allocation (SRA) considering the channel and queue state, while supporting fairness. We also integrate our cross-layer SRA scheme with filter-bank multicarrier/offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC/OQAM) to leverage the higher spectral efficiency. Our performance evaluation results show that our SRA method outperforms a novel SRA algorithm [1] by up to approximately 60%, 2.6%, and 1.6% in terms of goodput, goodput fairness, and delay fairness, respectively.