Block diagonalization for multi-user MIMO with other-cell interference

  • Authors:
  • Seijoon Shim;Jin Kwak;R. Heath;J. Andrews

  • Affiliations:
  • Samsung Electron. Co., Ltd., Suwon;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Block diagonalization is one approach for linear preceding in the multiple-input multiple-output broadcast channel that sends multiple interference free data streams to different users in the same cell. Unfortunately, block diagonalization neglects other-cell interference (OCI), which limits the performance of users at the edge of the cell. This paper presents an OCI-aware enhancement to block diagonalization that uses a whitening filter for interference suppression at the receiver and a novel precoder using the interference-plus-noise covariance matrix for each user at the transmitter. For complex Gaussian matrix channels, the asymptotic sum rate of the proposed system is analyzed under a large antenna assumption for isotropic inputs and compared to conventional block diagonalization. The capacity loss due to OCI is quantified in terms of results from single-user MIMO capacity. Several numerical examples compare achievable sum rates, the proposed asymptotic rates, and the capacity loss, in low and high interference regimes.