Interference aware-coordinated beamforming in a multi-cell system

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3692-3703

  Chae, Chan Byoung ^a   Hwang, Insoo ^b   Heath Jr , Robert W ^b   Tarokh, Vahid ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coordinated beamforming; interference alignment; interference suppression; MIMO system; multi cell system; multiuser system

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVABLE SUM RATES; COORDINATED BEAMFORMING; EIGEN-BEAMFORMING; INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT; LINEAR TRANSCEIVER; LOWER BOUNDS; MULTICELL; MULTICELL SYSTEM; MULTIPLE TRANSMIT ANTENNAS; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT CHANNELS; MULTIPLEXING GAINS; MULTIUSER SYSTEM; NON-COOPERATIVE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMALITY; OTHER-CELL INTERFERENCE; RECEIVE ANTENNA; SUM-RATE; ZERO-FORCING;

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; CELLS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MIMO SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84867897247     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.081312.112119     Document Type: Article

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