A Novel Tri-Staged RIA Scheme for Cooperative Cell Edge Users in a Multi-Cellular MIMO IMAC

Abstract

In the real world of wireless communication systems, one solution to the practical limitation of interference alignment in terms of global channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) requirement is to consider a linear precoding approach that only uses delayed CSIT known as retrospective interference alignment (RIA). Therefore, in the proposed work, a novel RIA scheme for the cooperative cell edge (CE) users that are more vulnerable to inter-cell interference in a multi-cellular multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference multiple access channels (IMAC) is presented. The core idea of the proposed RIA is characterized by interference refining at the end of the first two stages and interference redirecting at the third stage. The initial stage 1 involves feeding the base station (BS) in cell-1 with the data streams from the cooperative CE users. During stage 2, the BS in cell-2 is fed with data streams from the cooperative CE users in cell-2. In the final stage 3, the overheard equation redirecting is performed. Based on the proposed method, we showed that for a three CE user cooperative multi-cellular MIMO IMAC channel, the achievable degrees of freedom (DoF) is $\frac {24}{7}$ and later extended to a general ${L}$ -CE user cooperative multi-cellular MIMO IMAC channel and obtained the desired DoF as $\frac {{2{L}}({L}+1)}{{2{L}}+1}$ . The simulation result shows that in comparison with the other benchmark schemes considered, the proposed scheme provides a greater DoF and thereby enhances the performance of cooperative CE users.

Keywords

• Channel state information at the transmitter
• degrees of freedom
• interference management
• retrospective interference alignment