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Adaptive Bit Partitioning for Multicell Intercell Interference Nulling with Delayed Limited Feedback
Base station cooperation can exploit knowledge of the users' channel state
information (CSI) at the transmitters to manage co-channel interference. Users
have to feedback CSI of the desired and interfering channels using
finite-bandwidth backhaul links. Existing codebook designs for single-cell
limited feedback can be used for multicell cooperation by partitioning the
available feedback resources between the multiple channels. In this paper, a
new feedback-bit allocation strategy is proposed, as a function of the delays
in the communication links and received signal strengths in the downlink.
Channel temporal correlation is modeled as a function of delay using the
Gauss-Markov model. Closed-form expressions for bit partitions are derived to
allocate more bits to quantize the stronger channels with smaller delays and
fewer bits to weaker channels with larger delays, assuming random vector
quantization. Cellular network simulations are used to show that the proposed
algorithm yields higher sum-rates than an equal-bit allocation technique.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, July 201
Interference Alignment Through User Cooperation for Two-cell MIMO Interfering Broadcast Channels
This paper focuses on two-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian
interfering broadcast channels (MIMO-IFBC) with cooperating users on the
cell-boundary of each BS. It corresponds to a downlink scenario for cellular
networks with two base stations (BSs), and users equipped with Wi-Fi
interfaces enabling to cooperate among users on a peer-to-peer basis. In this
scenario, we propose a novel interference alignment (IA) technique exploiting
user cooperation. Our proposed algorithm obtains the achievable degrees of
freedom (DoF) of 2K when each BS and user have transmit antennas and
receive antennas, respectively. Furthermore, the algorithm requires only
a small amount of channel feedback information with the aid of the user
cooperation channels. The simulations demonstrate that not only are the
analytical results valid, but the achievable DoF of our proposed algorithm also
outperforms those of conventional techniques.Comment: This paper will appear in IEEE GLOBECOM 201
A Practical Cooperative Multicell MIMO-OFDMA Network Based on Rank Coordination
An important challenge of wireless networks is to boost the cell edge
performance and enable multi-stream transmissions to cell edge users.
Interference mitigation techniques relying on multiple antennas and
coordination among cells are nowadays heavily studied in the literature.
Typical strategies in OFDMA networks include coordinated scheduling,
beamforming and power control. In this paper, we propose a novel and practical
type of coordination for OFDMA downlink networks relying on multiple antennas
at the transmitter and the receiver. The transmission ranks, i.e.\ the number
of transmitted streams, and the user scheduling in all cells are jointly
optimized in order to maximize a network utility function accounting for
fairness among users. A distributed coordinated scheduler motivated by an
interference pricing mechanism and relying on a master-slave architecture is
introduced. The proposed scheme is operated based on the user report of a
recommended rank for the interfering cells accounting for the receiver
interference suppression capability. It incurs a very low feedback and backhaul
overhead and enables efficient link adaptation. It is moreover robust to
channel measurement errors and applicable to both open-loop and closed-loop
MIMO operations. A 20% cell edge performance gain over uncoordinated LTE-A
system is shown through system level simulations.Comment: IEEE Transactions or Wireless Communications, Accepted for
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Cooperative Precoding with Limited Feedback for MIMO Interference Channels
Multi-antenna precoding effectively mitigates the interference in wireless
networks. However, the resultant performance gains can be significantly
compromised in practice if the precoder design fails to account for the
inaccuracy in the channel state information (CSI) feedback. This paper
addresses this issue by considering finite-rate CSI feedback from receivers to
their interfering transmitters in the two-user multiple-input-multiple-output
(MIMO) interference channel, called cooperative feedback, and proposing a
systematic method for designing transceivers comprising linear precoders and
equalizers. Specifically, each precoder/equalizer is decomposed into inner and
outer components for nulling the cross-link interference and achieving array
gain, respectively. The inner precoders/equalizers are further optimized to
suppress the residual interference resulting from finite-rate cooperative
feedback. Further- more, the residual interference is regulated by additional
scalar cooperative feedback signals that are designed to control transmission
power using different criteria including fixed interference margin and maximum
sum throughput. Finally, the required number of cooperative precoder feedback
bits is derived for limiting the throughput loss due to precoder quantization.Comment: 23 pages; 5 figures; this work was presented in part at Asilomar 2011
and will appear in IEEE Trans. on Wireless Com
Cooperative Feedback for Multi-Antenna Cognitive Radio Networks
Cognitive beamforming (CB) is a multi-antenna technique for efficient
spectrum sharing between primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) in a
cognitive radio network. Specifically, a multi-antenna SU transmitter applies
CB to suppress the interference to the PU receivers as well as enhance the
corresponding SU-link performance. In this paper, for a
multiple-input-single-output (MISO) SU channel coexisting with a
single-input-single-output (SISO) PU channel, we propose a new and practical
paradigm for designing CB based on the finite-rate cooperative feedback from
the PU receiver to the SU transmitter. Specifically, the PU receiver
communicates to the SU transmitter the quantized SU-to-PU channel direction
information (CDI) for computing the SU transmit beamformer, and the
interference power control (IPC) signal that regulates the SU transmission
power according to the tolerable interference margin at the PU receiver. Two CB
algorithms based on cooperative feedback are proposed: one restricts the SU
transmit beamformer to be orthogonal to the quantized SU-to-PU channel
direction and the other relaxes such a constraint. In addition, cooperative
feedforward of the SU CDI from the SU transmitter to the PU receiver is
exploited to allow more efficient cooperative feedback. The outage
probabilities of the SU link for different CB and cooperative
feedback/feedforward algorithms are analyzed, from which the optimal
bit-allocation tradeoff between the CDI and IPC feedback is characterized.Comment: 26 pages; to appear in IEEE Trans. Signal Processin
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