Joint Space-Frequency Iterative Interference Suppression in Multiuser MIMO-OFDM Systems (original) (raw)

Iterative Successive Interference Cancellation Based on Multiple Feedback For Multiuser MIMO Systems

Recently, a block spreading code division multiple access (BS-CDMA) technique was presented, whereby user-specific precoding along with orthogonal spreading codes is used to achieve multiuser interference-(MUI-) free reception when all users arrive at the base station simultaneously. In practice, however, imperfect synchronization destroys the orthogonality among users, and MUI occurs. To mitigate the MUI in BS-CDMA due to quasisynchronous reception, this paper proposes an iterative successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver, where cancellation of interfering signals is ordered according to the times of arrival (TOA) of the signals from different users. The ordering criterion is justified through analysis and simulation on the average signal-tointerference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of different users, where it is shown that in a quasisynchronous BS-CDMA system, ordering with regard to increasing TOA is equivalent to ordering with respect to decreasing average SINR, when practical channels such as the exponentially decaying channel is considered. The proposed SIC receiver is shown to achieve a performance close to a system with synchronous reception for only two iterations. In addition, an algorithm to determine the detection order of different blocks is proposed such that parallel detection of the signals from different users with reduced latency can be achieved.

Space-Time Interference Cancellation in MIMO-OFDM Systems

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2005

In this paper, a two stage hybrid interference cancellation and equalization framework is proposed for interference cancellation in the uplink of multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems. The first stage uses time domain equalization to suppress cochannel interference, mitigate asynchronism, and shorten the postequalization channel response to be no longer than the length of the cyclic prefix. The second stage performs low-complexity single tap equalization and detection in the frequency domain. The framework is developed specifically for spatial multiplexing and is applied to multiuser MIMO-OFDM systems with asynchronism between users as well as to single-user MIMO-OFDM systems. Various equalizer design methods are proposed that determine the coefficients directly from the training data and are compared with methods based on channel estimates. The equalizer coefficients and postequalization channel response are found by solving a joint optimization that maximizes the signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) in the frequency domain. Simulations compare various training-based methods and show the proposed methods provide good bit error rate (BER) and SINR performance in a variety of interference scenarios.

A Technique for Multiuser and Intercarrier Interference Reduction in Multiple-Antenna Multiuser OFDM Downlink

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2007

We propose a two-stage precoder/equalizer to suppress intercarrier interference (ICI) and multiuser interference (MUI) in downlink multiuser OFDM with multiple transmit antennas. The first stage, non-linear Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) at the base station (BS) transmitter, mitigates the effect of the spatial inter-stream interference caused by transmission from multiple transmit antennas to decentralized users. In the second stage, each user's receiver employs lowcomplexity iterative linear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) equalization to suppress the ICI due to frequency offset. Our proposed technique virtually eliminates the bit error rate (BER) degradation due to normalized frequency offsets as high as 10%.

A multiuser interference cancellation scheme for uplink OFDMA

In uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, multiuser interference (MUI) occurs due to different carrier frequency offsets (CFO) of different users at the receiver. In this paper, we present a multistage linear parallel interference cancellation (LPIC) approach to mitigate the effect of this MUI in uplink OFDMA. The proposed scheme first performs CFO compensation (in time domain), followed by K DFT operations (where K is the number of users) and multistage LPIC on these DFT outputs. We scale the MUI estimates by weights before cancellation and optimize these weights by maximizing the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) at the output of the different stages of the LPIC. We derive closed-form expressions for these optimum weights. The proposed LPIC scheme is shown to effectively cancel the MUI caused by the other user CFOs in uplink OFDMA

Multiuser Mimo Ofdm Interference Channels with Joint Beamforming

2016

In a multiuser multiple input and multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing channel there is correspondence over channel subjected to co-channel interference. Synchronisation is performed between the transmit antennas and receive antennas through beamforming applied in time domain using zero forcing beamforming technique that reduces interference, time delay making it a time tolerant network, increases the number of users in the channel and with an equaliser that amplifies the channel limit. A calculation is performed that amplifies the SINR furthermore upgrades the total rate limit.

Adaptive interference suppression in multiuser wireless OFDM systems using antenna arrays

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 1999

This paper considers the problem of mitigating fading and interference in wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple access communication systems. Applications include cellular mobile radio, wireless local loop, and wireless local area networks. The effect of interchannel interference (ICI) arising from time-selective fading and frequency offsets and co-channel interference (CCI) is analyzed. A loop-timing method that enables a synchronous uplink between multiple mobile transceivers and a base-station is described. Adaptive antenna arrays are utilized at the base for uplink reception, and optimum array combining based on the maximum SINR criterion is used for each subchannel over slowly timevarying channels. For operation over fast time-varying channels, a novel two-stage adaptive array architecture that incorporates combined spatial diversity and constraint-based beamforming is presented. While ICI alone is most effectively overcome by spatial diversity, combined beamforming and diversity are most effective to combat CCI in the presence of fading. The overall method is suitable for real-time implementation and can be used in conjunction with traditional coding schemes to increase the link-margin.

Iterative Methods for Cancellation of Intercarrier Interference in OFDM Systems

2008

We consider orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems with intercarrier interference (ICI) due to insufficient cyclic prefix and/or temporal variations. Intersymbol interference (ISI) and ICI lead to an error floor in conventional receivers. We suggest two techniques for the equalization of ICI. The first, called "operator-perturbation technique" is an iterative technique for the inversion of a linear system of equations. Alternatively, we show that serial or parallel interference cancellation can be used to drastically reduce the error floor. Simulations show that, depending on the SNR and the origin of the ICI, one of the schemes performs best. In all cases our schemes lead to a drastic reduction of the bit error rate.

On interference cancellation and iterative techniques

Proceedings 2001 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (Cat. No.01EX494), 2001

Recent research activities in the area of mobile radio communications have moved to third generation (3G) cellular systems to achieve higher quality with variable transmission rate of multimedia information. In this paper, an overview is presented of various interference cancellation and iterative detection techniques that are believed to be suitable for 3G wireless communications systems. Key concepts are space-time processing and space-division multiple access (or SDMA) techniques. SDMA techniques are possible with software antennas. Furthermore, to reduce receiver implementation complexity, iterative detection techniques are considered. A particularly attractive method uses tentative hard decisions, made on the received positions with the highest reliability, according to some criterion, and can potentially yield an important reduction in the computational requirements of an iterative receiver, with minimum penalty in error performance. A study of the tradeoffs between complexity and performance loss of iterative multiuser detection techniques is a good research topic.

Intercarrier interference self-cancellation for space-time-frequency MIMO-OFDM system

2008

Space-frequency (SF) codes that exploit both spatial and frequency diversity can be designed using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). However, OFDM is sensitive to frequency offset (FO), which generates intercarrier interference (ICI) among subcarriers. We investigate the pair-wise error probability (PEP) performance of SF codes over quasistatic, frequency selective Rayleigh fading channels with FO. We prove that the conventional SF code design criteria remain valid. The negligible performance loss for small FOs (less than 1%), however, increases with FO and with signal to noise ratio (SNR). While diversity can be used to mitigate ICI, as FO increases, the PEP does not rapidly decay with SNR. Therefore, we propose a new class of SF codes called ICI self-cancellation SF (ISC-SF) codes to combat ICI effectively even with high FO (10%). ISC-SF codes are constructed from existing full diversity space-time codes. Importantly, our code design provide a satisfactory tradeoff among error correction ability, ICI reduction and spectral efficiency. Furthermore, we demonstrate that ISC-SF codes can also mitigate the ICI caused by phase noise and time varying channels. Simulation results affirm the theoretical analysis. Index Terms-Inter-carrier interference (ICI), multiple input multiple output (MIMO), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), space-frequency (SF) codes.

Cancellation of Multiuser Interference Due to Carrier Frequency Offsets in Uplink OFDMA

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2000

In uplink orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, multiuser interference (MUI) occurs due to different carrier frequency offsets (CFO) of different users at the receiver. In this paper, we present a multistage linear parallel interference cancellation (LPIC) approach to mitigate the effect of this MUI in uplink OFDMA. The proposed scheme first performs CFO compensation (in time-domain) followed by K DFT operations (where K is the number of users) and multistage LPIC on these DFT outputs. We scale the MUI estimates by weights before cancellation and optimize these weights by maximizing the average signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) at the output of the different stages of the LPIC. We derive closed-form expressions for these optimum weights. The proposed LPIC scheme is shown to effectively cancel the MUI caused by the other user CFOs in uplink OFDMA.