Systems and methods are disclosed herein for multi-user pairing and, in some embodiments, Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) calculation in a cellular communications system. In some embodiments, a method performed in a base station of a cellular communications system to perform downlink scheduling for Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) comprises, for each User Equipment (UE) of a plurality of UEs considered for MU-MIMO UE pairing, obtaining a relative beam power at the UE for each of the plurality of beams. The relative beam power at the UE for each beam is a value that represents a relative beam power of the beam at the UE relative to a beam power of a strongest of the plurality of beams at the UE. The method further comprises selecting a MU-MIMO UE pairing based on the obtained relative beam powers.