MSE-Based Robust Precoder Design in Multicell Downlink Systems

Cong-gai LI
Chen HE
Ling-ge JIANG

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E96-A    No.5    pp.1017-1020
Publication Date: 2013/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E96.A.1017
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Communication Theory and Signals
Keyword: 
multi-cell cooperation,  robust precoder,  upper bound of MSE,  weighted sum MSE minimization,  

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Summary: 
To mitigate the inter-cell interference in multicell downlink systems, this letter consider the robust precoder design for multicell cooperation where the knowledge of channel state available at the base station is imperfect. Assuming that imperfect channel state information (CSI) can be exchanged among cells but with no data sharing, we investigate the worst-case performance optimization problem with bounded CSI error. Our objective is to minimize the weighted sum mean-square-error (MSE) subject to per-base-station power constraints. A distributed solution is obtained by reformulating the upper bound of MSE and exploiting the Lagrangian method for the optimal problem. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is robust to guarantee the worst-case sum rate performance and has lower computational complexity than the SINR-based design.