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The Effect of Imperfect SNR Knowledge on Multiantenna Multiuser Systems with Channel Aware Scheduling Peter Schulz-Rittich, Andreas Senst, Thomas Bilke and Heinrich Meyr Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems RWTH Aachen University Templergraben 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany Telephone: +49 (241) 80 28251. Fax: +49 (241) 80 22195. E-mail: rittich@iss.rwth-aachen.de Abstract— We analyze a cellular communication system in thus the overall throughput can be significantly improved. The which a basestation (BTS) or access point transmits packet data gain obtained by scheduling users in such a way is large when to several mobile data users by means of a TDMA scheme. fading for all users is fast and has a high dynamic range. All users estimate their instantaneous signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) in each slot and feed this information back to the BTS. A In picocells with typically slow fading or in macrocells with scheduler in the BTS then uses this information to allocate little scattering around the transmitter, it can be shown that the channel resource to the user which maximizes a certain employing multiple antennas along with random beamforming metric. We are interested in assessing the sensitivity of the increases multiuser diversity by ”randomizing” the channels system performance in terms of spectral efficiency per cell with [1]. This is a completely new design paradigm, which is in respect to an imperfect knowledge of the multiuser channel, expressed by the estimated SNR of all users. By assuming a contrast to conventional ap