An efficient scheduler for uplink single carrier FDMA system

In uplink 3GPP Long-Term Evolution (LTE), single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) is considered partly because of the fact that Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) for Multi-Carrier Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MC-OFDM) is still a hindrance. But, an unique characteristic of SC-FDMA is that subcarriers have to be assigned by contiguous manner for a specific user, which induces a complicated scheduling algorithm to SC-FDMA because a user is not able to exploit frequency selectivity gain fully. To increase system throughput, we propose a new frequency scheduling method using each user´s channel gain difference and a contiguity assigning method. Focused on maximizing the total system capacity of SC-FDMA uplink, we compare our algorithms with others in uplink 3GPP LTE. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme outperforms over the existing schemes.