Efficient Transmitter and Receiver Designs for SC-FDMA Based Heterogeneous Networks Castanheira, D. ; Silva, A. ; Dinis, R. ; Gameiro, A.

• Autor(a) principal: Dinis, Rui
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Castanheira, Daniel, Silva, Adão, Gameiro, Atílio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11144/3684
• topic: Heterogeneous Networks; SC-FDMA; Interference Alignment; IB-DFE; Quantization

In this manuscript, we consider the uplink of a single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) based system, where a set of small-cells coexist with a macro-cell using the same spectrum. To deal with both the inter-carrier interference (ICI) and inter-system interference we combine interference alignment (IA) precoding at the small-cell transmitters with iterative decision feedback equalization at the macroreceiver. The transmitter and receiver design is performed jointly, by considering both full-coordination and limited inter-system information exchange between macro and small-cells. At the small cells side, we assume that the access points are connected through a limited capacity backhaul network to a central unit, where the separation of a quantized version of the small-cell signals is performed. For this case the iterative feedback equalizer is designed by explicitly taking into account the impact of signal quantization. Moreover, a semi-analytical approach for the performance of the proposed schemes is provided. The results show that the proposed schemes are robust to both inter-system and inter-carrier interferences and thus are able to efficiently separate the macro and small cells spatial streams under limited information exchange.