User Selection for symbol-level multigroup multicasting precoding in the downlink of MISO channels

We consider the problem of user selection for symbol-level multigroup multicasting in the downlink of multiuser MISO systems. Symbol-level precoding is a new paradigm for multiuser multiple-antenna downlink systems which aims at creating constructive interference among the simultaneous data streams. This can be enabled by designing the precoded signal of the multiantenna transmitter on a symbol level, taking into account both channel state information and data symbols. This work proposes a user selection algorithm to facilitate serving multiple groups of users, by transmitting a stream of common symbols to each group on symbol-by-symbol basis if we have large number of users. We provide numerical results to validate the proposed algorithm.