An Interference-Aware Precoding Scheme for the Downlink of Multi-Cell Multi-User MIMO Communication

Sambo, Y., Héliot, F. and Imran, M. A. (2012) An Interference-Aware Precoding Scheme for the Downlink of Multi-Cell Multi-User MIMO Communication. In: 2012 IEEE 4th International Conference on Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST), Kumasi, Ghana, 25-27 Oct 2012, pp. 29-32. ISBN 9781467347891 (doi: 10.1109/ICASTech.2012.6381061)

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Abstract

In multi-cell communication, users close to the cell boundaries tend to suffer interferences from other-cell users. Other-Cell Interference (OCI) coming from neighbouring cells considerably degrades the overall performance of the system. In this paper, we propose a precoding scheme for the multi-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO) downlink based on the regularized channel inversion algorithm to mitigate the effect of OCI in multi-cell systems. The scheme is designed by taking into account the interference plus noise covariance matrix of each user at the transmitter and the use of an interference suppression filter at each receiver. Unlike traditional OCI-aware Block Diagonalization (BD) based algorithms that experience noise enhancement due to complete elimination of multi-user interference (MUI), this scheme suppresses the MUI while taking the OCI into consideration. Simulation results show that the sum-rate performance of the proposed scheme outperforms the OCI-aware BD algorithm for different OCI settings.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Imran, Professor Muhammad
Authors: Sambo, Y., Héliot, F., and Imran, M. A.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering
ISBN:9781467347891
Published Online:13 December 2012

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