Abstract-Aiming to achieve the sum-rate capacity in multiuser multi-antenna systems where Nt antennas are implemented at the transmitter, opportunistic beamforming (OBF) generates Nt orthonormal beams and serves Nt users during each channel use, which results in high scheduling delay over the users, especially in densely populated networks. Non-orthogonal OBF with more than Nt transmit beams can be exploited to serve more users simultaneously and further decrease scheduling delay. However, the inter-beam interference will inevitably deteriorate the sum-rate. Therefore, there is a tradeoff between sum-rate and scheduling delay for non-orthogonal OBF. In this context, system performance and implementation of non-orthogonal OBF with N > Nt beams are investigated in this paper. Specifically, it is analytically shown that non-orthogonal OBF is an interferencelimited system as the number of users K → ∞. When the interbeam interference reaches its minimum for fixed Nt and N , the sum-rate scales as N ln