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Book Adaptive Channel Estimator Design for OFDM based Wireless Communication Systems

Download or read book Adaptive Channel Estimator Design for OFDM based Wireless Communication Systems written by 黃彥銘 and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Signal Processing  Channel Estimation and Link Adaptation in MIMO OFDM Systems

Download or read book Signal Processing Channel Estimation and Link Adaptation in MIMO OFDM Systems written by Jianjun Ran and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emerging wireless communication systems, such as cellular communications systems and wireless net-works, are changing the life style nowadays dramatically. The prospect of modern wireless communication systems is very attractive by declaring the ability of ubiquitous access to information with high-quality and high-speed service. The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technique is one promising candidate for the $4^{th}$ generation wireless systems, due to its merits of high flexibility and low equalization complexity for wideband wireless communication applications. To further enhance the communication system capacity and reliability, multiple antenna techniques can be integrated into OFDM systems. As a preliminary step, the physical characteristics of wideband radio channels and the channel modeling issue are addressed. The channel capacity with multiple antennas is presented by considering both cases of ideal and practical estimated channel state information (CSI) in the system. The fundamentals of the OFDM transmission technique are introduced. With the OFDM transmission structu-re the frequency-selective wideband radio channel is decomposed into a set of parallel subcarriers, and each subcarrier can be treated as a flat-fading narrowband channel. Several Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technologies are discussed, in the scope of subcarrier-based MIMO encoding and decoding within the MIMO-OFDM transceiver structure, i.\ e.\ integrate the MIMO signal processing algorithms into a wideband OFDM system, where each OFDM subcarrier is regarded individually as a narrowband flat-fading subsystem with the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and Inverse Discrete Fou-rier Transform (IDFT). The simulation results and analysis are presented under various radio channel condi-tions with ideal CSI. For practical reasons, channel estimation is necessary for coherent-detection MIMO-OFDM systems. The Pilot-based Channel Estimation (PBCE) schemes are implemented to evaluate the system performance with the realistically estimated CSI. With estimated CSI for MIMO encoding/decoding and data symbol detection, the system performance is reasonably degraded. The system performance results with estimated CSI are presented, and the impact of channel estimation errors is analyzed. In order to ensure a reliable and flexible data transmission in MIMO-OFDM systems, the indicator-based link adaptation procedure is employed to optimize the system throughput by selecting a proper Transmission Mode (TM) according to the instantaneous channel conditions. The Transmission Mode Selection (TMS) procedure with two-dimensional (2D) indicators is developed. A set of indicator candidates and their appro-ximation functions are proposed. With the indicator simulation results and the proposed TMS procedure for MIMO-OFDM systems, the average system throughput results are illustrated for both the conventional link adaptation method and the proposed 2D indicator-based TMS approach. Finally, the general system performance results of MIMO-OFDM systems are summarized. Arguments and suggestions are further made on how to design a MIMO-OFDM system in various wideband wireless com-munication applications.

Book OFDM

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hermann Rohling
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-03-22
  • ISBN : 3642174965
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book OFDM written by Hermann Rohling and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Preliminary): The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital transmission technique has several advantages in broadcast and mobile communications applications. The main objective of this book is to give a good insight into these efforts, and provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the scientific progress which was achieved in the last decade. Besides topics of the physical layer, such as coding, modulation and non-linearities, a special emphasis is put on system aspects and concepts, in particular regarding cellular networks and using multiple antenna techniques. The work extensively addresses challenges of link adaptation, adaptive resource allocation and interference mitigation in such systems. Moreover, the domain of cross-layer design, i.e. the combination of physical layer aspects and issues of higher layers, are considered in detail. These results will facilitate and stimulate further innovation and development in the design of modern communication systems, based on the powerful OFDM transmission technique.

Book Adaptive Signal Processing in Wireless Communications

Download or read book Adaptive Signal Processing in Wireless Communications written by Mohamed Ibnkahla and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptive techniques play a key role in modern wireless communication systems. The concept of adaptation is emphasized in the Adaptation in Wireless Communications Series through a unified framework across all layers of the wireless protocol stack ranging from the physical layer to the application layer, and from cellular systems to next-generation wireless networks. This specific volume, Adaptive Signal Processing in Wireless Communications is devoted to adaptation in the physical layer. It gives an in-depth survey of adaptive signal processing techniques used in current and future generations of wireless communication systems. Featuring the work of leading international experts, it covers adaptive channel modeling, identification and equalization, adaptive modulation and coding, adaptive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems, and cooperative diversity. It also addresses other important aspects of adaptation in wireless communications such as hardware implementation, reconfigurable processing, and cognitive radio. A second volume in the series, Adaptation and Cross-layer Design in Wireless Networks(cat no.46039) is devoted to adaptation in the data link, network, and application layers.

Book Signal Processing for Mobile Communications Handbook

Download or read book Signal Processing for Mobile Communications Handbook written by Mohamed Ibnkahla and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-08-16 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a wealth of research has emerged addressing various aspects of mobile communications signal processing. New applications and services are continually arising, and future mobile communications offer new opportunities and exciting challenges for signal processing. The Signal Processing for Mobile Communications Handbook provi

Book OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications

Download or read book OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications written by Tzi-Dar Chiueh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) access schemes are becoming more prevalent among cellular and wireless broadband systems, accelerating the need for smaller, more energy efficient receiver solutions. Up to now the majority of OFDM texts have dealt with signal processing aspects. To address the current gap in OFDM integrated circuit (IC) instruction, Chiueh and Tsai have produced this timely text on baseband design. OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless Communications covers the gamut of OFDM technology, from theories and algorithms to architectures and circuits. Chiueh and Tsai give a concise yet comprehensive look at digital communications fundamentals before explaining modulation and signal processing algorithms in OFDM receivers. Moreover, the authors give detailed treatment of hardware issues -- from design methodology to physical IC implementation. Closes the gap between OFDM theory and implementation Enables the reader to transfer communication receiver concepts into hardware design wireless receivers with acceptable implementation loss achieve low-power designs Contains numerous figures to illustrate techniques Features concrete design examples of MC-CDMA systems and cognitive radio applications Presents theoretical discussions that focus on concepts rather than mathematical derivation Provides a much-needed single source of material from numerous papers Based on course materials for a class in digital communication IC design, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate or post-graduate students from either VLSI design or signal processing backgrounds. New and experienced engineers in industry working on algorithms or hardware for wireless communications devices will also find this book to be a key reference.

Book Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless MIMO OFDM Communications

Download or read book Baseband Receiver Design for Wireless MIMO OFDM Communications written by Tzi-Dar Chiueh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Edition of OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for Wirless Communications, this book expands on the earlier edition with enhanced coverage of MIMO techniques, additional baseband algorithms, and more IC design examples. The authors cover the full range of OFDM technology, from theories and algorithms to architectures and circuits. The book gives a concise yet comprehensive look at digital communication fundamentals before explaining signal processing algorithms in receivers. The authors give detailed treatment of hardware issues - from architecture to IC implementation. Links OFDM and MIMO theory with hardware implementation Enables the reader to transfer communication received concepts into hardware; design wireless receivers with acceptable implemntation loss; achieve low-power designs Covers the latest standards, such as DVB-T2, WiMax, LTE and LTE-A Includes more baseband algorithms, like soft-decoding algorithms such as BCJR and SOVA Expanded treatment of channel models, detection algorithms and MIMO techniques Features concrete design examples of WiMAX systems and cognitive radio apllications Companion website with lecture slides for instructors Based on materials developed for a course in digital communication IC design, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in VLSI design, wireless communications, and communications signal processing. Practicing engineers working on algorithms or hardware for wireless communications devices will also find this to be a key reference.

Book Adaptive OFDM based UWB

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juan I. Montojo-Bennassar
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Adaptive OFDM based UWB written by Juan I. Montojo-Bennassar and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of wireless communications is increasing and will continue growing, not only for personal communications but also for machine-to-machine applications. Therefore, the use of physical resources for wireless communications, i.e., time and frequency, need to be optimized to maximize the communication link efficiency and to reduce the "cost" of moving bits over the air. The joint use of ultra wideband (UWB) and cognitive radio (CR) has been identified as a solution to maximize the use of physical resources for wireless communications and to minimize the cost associated with its transfer. UWB and CR, in conjunction with software defined radio receivers, open up a whole new spectrum of possibilities to re-think the design and implementation of wireless communications. In that sense, the setting of the system parameters can become less rigid and can attempt to adapt to different scenarios with the goal to maximize the communication link efficiency. This dissertation presents a study on how to realize a cognitive Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) wireless system with the goal of maximizing the utilization of physical resources. We first parameterize the OFDM system to a limited set of degrees of freedom, and then we identify the performance of a non-ideal OFDM system. The non-idealities that we consider are imperfections at the receiver, such as timing errors, residual frequency error and imperfect channel estimation, as well as channel perturbations such as inter-symbol interference (ISI) from a channel delay spread larger than the cyclic prefix (CP) or Doppler stemming from the motion of the transmitter and/or receiver. th the parameterization of the OFDM system and the performance characterization as a function of different parameters, we present how the cognitive OFDM receiver will select the set of parameters that maximize the communication link efficiency. These parameters are the position, at the receiver, of the DFT window, the pilot structure, the CP duration, and the OFDM symbol duration.

Book OFDM and MC CDMA

Download or read book OFDM and MC CDMA written by Lajos Hanzo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wireless communications has witnessed a tremendous growth during the past decade and further spectacular enabling technology advances are expected in an effort to render ubiquitous wireless connectivity a reality. Currently, a technical in-depth book on this subject is unavailable, which has a similar detailed exposure of OFDM, MIMO-OFDM and MC-CDMA. A further attraction of the joint treatment of these topics is that it allows the reader to view their design trade-offs in a comparative context. Divided into three main parts: Part I provides a detailed exposure of OFDM designed for employment in various applications Part II is another design alternative applicable in the context of OFDM systems where the channel quality fluctuations observed are averaged out with the aid of frequency-domain spreading codes, which leads to the concept of MC-CDMA Part III discusses how to employ multiple antennas at the base station for the sake of supporting multiple users in the uplink By providing an all-encompassing self-contained treatment this volume will appeal to a wide readership, as it is both an easy-reading textbook and a high-level research monograph.

Book OFDM and MC CDMA for Broadband Multi User Communications  WLANs and Broadcasting

Download or read book OFDM and MC CDMA for Broadband Multi User Communications WLANs and Broadcasting written by Lajos Hanzo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a method of digital modulation in which a signal is split into several narrowband channels at different frequencies. CDMA is a form of multiplexing, which allows numerous signals to occupy a single transmission channel, optimising the use of available bandwidth. Multiplexing is sending multiple signals or streams of information on a carrier at the same time in the form of a single, complex signal and then recovering the separate signals at the receiving end. Multi-Carrier (MC) CDMA is a combined technique of Direct Sequence (DS) CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and OFDM techniques. It applies spreading sequences in the frequency domain. Wireless communications has witnessed a tremendous growth during the past decade and further spectacular enabling technology advances are expected in an effort to render ubiquitous wireless connectivity a reality. This technical in-depth book is unique in its detailed exposure of OFDM, MIMO-OFDM and MC-CDMA. A further attraction of the joint treatment of these topics is that it allows the reader to view their design trade-offs in a comparative context. Divided into three main parts: Part I provides a detailed exposure of OFDM designed for employment in various applications Part II is another design alternative applicable in the context of OFDM systems where the channel quality fluctuations observed are averaged out with the aid of frequency-domain spreading codes, which leads to the concept of MC-CDMA Part III discusses how to employ multiple antennas at the base station for the sake of supporting multiple users in the uplink Portrays the entire body of knowledge currently available on OFDM Provides the first complete treatment of OFDM, MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output)-OFDM and MC-CDMA Considers the benefits of channel coding and space time coding in the context of various application examples and features numerous complete system design examples Converts the lessons of Shannon’s information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems Combines the benefits of a textbook with a research monograph where the depth of discussions progressively increase throughout the book This all-encompassing self-contained treatment will appeal to researchers, postgraduate students and academics, practising research and development engineers working for wireless communications and computer networking companies and senior undergraduate students and technical managers.

Book Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing for Wireless Communications

Download or read book Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing for Wireless Communications written by Hua Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OFDM is a promising technique for high-data-rate wireless communications because it can combat inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by the dispersive fading of wireless channels. The proposed research focuses on techniques that improve the performance of OFDM-based wireless communications and its commercial and military applications. In particular, we address the following aspects of OFDM: inter-channel interference (ICI) suppression, interference suppression for clustered OFDM, clustered OFDM based anti-jamming modulation, channel estimation for MIMO-OFDM, MIMO transmission with limited feedback. For inter-channel interference suppression, a frequency domain partial response coding (PRC) scheme is proposed to mitigate ICI. We derive the near-optimal weights for PRC that is independent on the channel power spectrum. The error floor resulting from ICI can be reduced significantly using a two-tap or a three-tap PRC. Clustered OFDM is a new technique that has many advantages over traditional OFDM. In clustered OFDM systems, adaptive antenna arrays are used for interference suppression. To calculate weights for interference suppression, we propose a polynomial-based parameter estimator to combat the severe leakage of the DFT based estimator due to the small size of the cluster. An adaptive algorithm is developed to obtain optimal performance. For high data rate military communications, we propose a clustered OFDM base spread spectrum modulation to provide both anti-jamming and fading suppression capability. We analyze the performance of uncoded and coded system. Employing multiple transmit and receive antennas in OFDM systems (MIMO-OFDM) can increase the spectral efficiency and link reliability. We develop a minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) channel estimator that takes advantage of the spatial-frequency correlations in MIMO-OFDM systems to minimize the estimation error. We investigate the training sequence design and two optimal training sequence designs are given for arbitrary spatial correlations. For a MIMO system, the diversity and array gains can be obtained by exploiting channel information at the transmitter. For MIMO-OFDM systems, we propose a subspace tracking based approach that can exploit the frequency correlations of the OFDM system to reduce the feedback rate. The proposed approach does not need recalculate the precoding matrix and is robust to multiple data stream transmission.

Book Multi carrier Techniques For Broadband Wireless Communications  A Signal Processing Perspective

Download or read book Multi carrier Techniques For Broadband Wireless Communications A Signal Processing Perspective written by C-c Jay Kuo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-Carrier Techniques for Broadband Wireless Communications provides an accessible introduction to OFDM-based systems from a signal processing perspective. The first part presents a concise treatment of some fundamental concepts related to wireless communications and multicarrier systems, while the second offers a comprehensive survey of recent developments on a variety of critical design issues. These include synchronization techniques, channel estimation methods, adaptive resource allocation and practical schemes for reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of the transmitted waveform./a

Book Some Issues in Enabling Technologies for High Data Rate Reliable Wireless Communications

Download or read book Some Issues in Enabling Technologies for High Data Rate Reliable Wireless Communications written by Hlaing Minn and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation by generation, wireless communication has advanced in various ways and provided reliable communication services at higher and higher data rates to the needs of more and more advanced wireless applications. Two main issues towards future wireless communications are high-speed transmission technique to provide high data rate services and reliable communication to ensure the required performance. This dissertation focuses on these two issues. Since orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has emerged as an enabling technique for high-speed transmission in dispersive environments, major and fundamental issues in OFDM, namely, synchronization, channel estimation, and peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction are addressed. For the required reliability, automatic repeat request (ARQ) schemes must be applied. Due to large potential performance improvement, adaptive ARQ schemes have recently attracted much attention and are also addressed here. We propose two improved OFDM timing synchronization methods which overcome the drawbacks of existing methods. We present a time-domain-based OFDM channel estimation which outperforms the existing time-domain-based approach and has a similar performance to the linear minimum mean square error estimator but with less complexity. For OFDM systems with transmit diversity, we present a reduced complexity channel estimation which has a comparable performance to the existing method for channels with relatively small delay spreads, but achieves much complexity saving. An approach to find the number of most significant channel taps is described for diverse channel environments. We analyze the effect of non-sample-spaced channel path on the channel estimation and propose a modification for further improvement. Timing synchronization, frequency synchronization and channel estimation are usually addressed separately. Since they can affect each other, the idea of jointly addressing all of them together is much desirable and pursued here. This joint approach reflects the actual performance and gives an opportunity to exploit some information obtained from one task in another, hence promising more improvement. The proposed training preamble-based joint timing and frequency synchronization utilizes some information from the channel estimation. The sync detection is also considered. We design the training symbol to achieve a better coarse timing synchronization. Methods to suppress or circumvent the interference in the frequency estimation caused by timing errors are presented. A new performance measure for OFDM timing synchronization is proposed which leads to obtaining optimal timing estimation setting. Next, we present a joint timing synchronization, frequency synchronization and channel estimation based on training preamble based maximum likelihood realization. Further complexity reduction by an adaptive scheme is also proposed. We address some fundamental questions on peak factors, sampling theorem and sampling series. We present several bounds of bandlimited functions and peak factor ratio bound of a continuous signal and its sampled signal. Some discussion on the requirements of sampling theorems and related aspects on sampling series are presented. We study PAPR behavior of some Reed-Muller codes in OFDM systems in an attempt to find a code with good error correction, low PAPR, efficient encoding/decoding and reasonable code rate. Some regularities of the second and third-order cosets of first order Reed-Muller codes with low PAPR are presented which indicates possibility of finding such code for OFDM. The main issues in adaptive ARQ schemes are how to design the adaptive system parameters and how to effectively sense the channel conditions. We present an approach for designing the adaptive ARQ system parameters based on the through put calculation and optimization. An alternative approach which avoids the tedious throughput calculation is also presented. An effective channel sensing algorithm which utilizes the error correcting capability is proposed. Incorporation of the adaptive frequency hopping concept into the ARQ scheme with adaptive error control is introduced which has a significant throughput improvement in slow fading channels.

Book Adaptation in Wireless Communications   2 Volume Set

Download or read book Adaptation in Wireless Communications 2 Volume Set written by Mohamed Ibnkahla and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread use of adaptation techniques has helped to meet the increased demand for new applications. From adaptive signal processing to cross layer design, Adaptation in Wireless Communications covers all aspects of adaptation in wireless communications in a two-volume set. Each volume provides a unified framework for understanding adaptation and relates various specializations through common terminologies. In addition to simplified state-of-the-art cross layer design approaches, they also describe advanced techniques, such as adaptive resource management, 4G communications, and energy and mobility aware MAC protocols.

Book Wireless Communications Over Rapidly Time Varying Channels

Download or read book Wireless Communications Over Rapidly Time Varying Channels written by Franz Hlawatsch and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of higher frequencies and increased user mobility, researchers and systems designers are shifting their focus from time-invariant models to channels that vary within a block. Wireless Communications Over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels explains the latest theoretical advances and practical methods to give an understanding of rapidly time varying channels, together with performance trade-offs and potential performance gains, providing the expertise to develop future wireless systems technology. As well as an overview of the issues of developing wireless systems using time-varying channels, the book gives extensive coverage to methods for estimating and equalizing rapidly time-varying channels, including a discussion of training data optimization, as well as providing models and transceiver methods for time-varying ultra-wideband channels. An introduction to time-varying channel models gives in a nutshell the important issues of developing wireless systems technology using time-varying channels Extensive coverage of methods for estimating and equalizing rapidly time-varying channels, including a discussion of training data optimization, enables development of high performance wireless systems Chapters on transceiver design for OFDM and receiver algorithms for MIMO communication channels over time-varying channels, with an emphasis on modern iterative turbo-style architectures, demonstrates how these important technologies can optimize future wireless systems

Book Wireless Communication Systems

Download or read book Wireless Communication Systems written by Xiaodong Wang and published by Prentice Hall Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced Techniques for Signal Receptionoffers a unified frameworkfor understanding today's newest techniques for signal processing in communication systems - andusing them to design receivers for emerging wireless systems. Two leading researchers cover a fullrange of physical-layer issues, including multipath, dispersion, interference, dynamism, andmultiple-antenna systems. Topics include blind, group-blind, space-time, and turbo multiuserdetection; narrowband interference suppression; Monte Carlo Bayesian signal processing; fast fadingchannels; advanced signal processing in coded OFDM systems, and more.

Book Adaptive Resource Allocation Schemes in MIMO OFDM based Cellular Communication Systems

Download or read book Adaptive Resource Allocation Schemes in MIMO OFDM based Cellular Communication Systems written by Rainer Grünheid and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis, novel concepts of an adaptive resource allocation in an OFDM-based cellular network are considered. The approach of self-organised beamforming and opportunistic scheduling (SOBOS) is investigated, where in each cell the resource assignment is carried out autonomously and independently on the basis of SINR measurements. On the physical (PHY) layer, the use of multiple antennas (MIMO) is assumed. As an exten-sion of the original opportunistic beamforming approach, the self-organised beamforming principle is analysed, where well-defined grids of beams (GoBs) are applied to provide cover-age in the cellular network. This technique does not rely on any form of direct channel knowl-edge. Different methods for generating beams and composing the corresponding grids are taken into account. It is shown that by this beamforming technique, a good coverage of the network can be achieved. Using multiple beams in one GoB, the system goodput can be in-creased, leading to a hybrid TDMA/FDMA/SDMA scheme. The self-organised beamforming approach is shown to provide sufficient variations of the channel over time, frequency, and space, so that multiuser diversity can be exploited. The resources (time-frequency blocks) of the OFDM system can be assigned to users when their channel conditions are at their peak. On top of beamforming, different scheduling algorithms are considered for adaptive resource allocation on the DLC layer. Following the approach of cross-layer design, the scheduler is fed with detailed information of the current channel state for each user and each resource. For that purpose, a measurement model is applied which takes all SINR values of the resource to derive a good estimate of the expected channel quality (Packet Error Rate). With the help of this estimate, resource allocation and PHY mode selection can be carried out. The perform-ance of the scheduling algorithms is compared, especially highlighting the trade-off between the different design goals of goodput maximisation and fairness. Extending the idea of the cross-layer design between PHY and DLC layer, scheduling con-cepts which can actively control the use of beam grids are developed and analysed. Also, the use of certain QoS parameters is included. The options to adaptively use pre-defined as well as dedicated beams are proposed. It is shown that such adaptive measures are helpful for non-uniform user distributions and also to fulfil QoS requirements, i.e. by shaping dedicated beams to prioritised users. Finally, some practical considerations are given in terms of appropriate signalling concepts, which are required to feed sufficient channel state information back to the base station in or-der to facilitate the use of adaptive resource allocation. It is shown that a good system per-formance can be maintained while the signalling overhead is kept at an acceptable level. It appears from the analysed algorithms and techniques that the application of a self-organised beamforming, combined with opportunistic scheduling, is a promising new system concept to meet the demands of next generation’s mobile communication systems in terms of flexibility, adaptivity, and efficient use of resources.