An Intercell Interference Cancellation Method for Eigen-Beamforming Transmission

Jaewon CHANG  Gwuieon JIN  Wonjin SUNG 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E92-B  No.2  pp.646-649
Publication Date: 2009/02/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
MIMO,  eigen-beamforming,  interference cancellation,  spatial demultiplexing,  singular value decomposition, 

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Summary: 
Eigen-beamforming (EB) transmission for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is an effective means to maximize the receiver signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in a noise-limited environment, but suffers a performance degradation when strong interference signals exist. In this letter, we propose an interference cancellation method for EB signals by constructing a new receive beamforming vector which jointly utilizes the EB matrix and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) spatial demultiplexing. The proposed method is shown to outperform the conventional EB receiver in the entire cell range, with a significant increase in the effective signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) near the cell boundary.