Next generation wireless systems are expected to provide broadband access service and efficient support to multimedia applications. To overcome tbe limitation due to harsh propagation environments and tbe scarce spectrum availability, advanced transmission tecbniques based on multicarrier schemes and adaptive modulation are commonly considered key elements. However, in order to fully exploit tbese transmission schemes, scheduling mecbanisms able to take advantage of tbe diverse channel conditions experienced by users and guarantee at the same time quality of service, are of paramount importance.In tbis paper we first propose a scheduling scheme tbat increases tbe achievable tbrougbput by combining multiuser diversity witb channel prediction. Tben we extend tbe proposed scheme to incorporate quality of service requirements of multimedia services.Tbe proposed solution bas been validated witbin tbe framework of tbe 1ST WINNER project by means of system level simulations.

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