Distributed downlink beamforming with cooperative base stations

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5491-5499

  Ng, Boon Loong ^a,b   Evans, Jamie S ^a   Hanly, Stephen V ^a   Aktas, Defne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NEC Australia   (Australia)

^c BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cooperative base stations; Distributed algorithm; Downlink beamforming; Kalman smoothing; Linear mean square error (LMMSE); Localized interference; Message passing; Multicell processing; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Sum product algorithm

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; BLOCK CODES; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MESSAGE PASSING; MIM DEVICES; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

COOPERATIVE BASE STATIONS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; DOWNLINK BEAMFORMING; KALMAN SMOOTHING; LINEAR MEAN SQUARE ERROR (LMMSE); LOCALIZED INTERFERENCE; MULTICELL PROCESSING; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO); SUM-PRODUCT ALGORITHM;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 57349122354     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2008.2006426     Document Type: Article

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