Adaptive Perturbation-Aided Opportunistic Beamforming

This letter proposes a novel opportunistic beamforming algorithm, called adaptive perturbation-Aided opportunistic beamforming. In each time slot, the proposed algorithm makes a random adjustment to the beamforming vector. Then, for data transmission, it adopts the successful perturbation, which yields performance improvements. By contrast, the failed perturbation is discarded. In addition to random perturbation, an adaptive component, which depends on the feedback information, is added to generate the next beamforming vector. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides significant improvement in terms of system throughput, especially, when there is a small number of mobile stations.