Computationally efficient robust beamforming for SINR balancing in multicell downlink with applications to large antenna array systems

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1908-1920

  Hanif, Muhammad Fainan ^a   Tran, Le Nam ^a   Tolli, Antti ^a   Juntti, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Interference channel; Massive MIMO; Multicell beamforming; Reduced complexity; SINR balancing; Very largescale antenna arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BASE STATIONS; BEAMFORMING; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; OPTIMIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; INTERFERENCE CHANNELS; MULTI-CELL BEAMFORMING; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; SECOND-ORDER CONE PROGRAM; SEMI-DEFINITE PROGRAM (SDP); SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE PLUS NOISE RATIO; SINR BALANCING;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84903168794     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2320913     Document Type: Article

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