Journal of University of Science and Technology of China ›› 2014, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (1): 48-60.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2778.2014.01.006

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Subspace interference alignment on Grassmann manifold for cellular networks

ZHANG Chen, YIN Huarui, LI Xu, WEi Guo   

  1. WINLab, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China
  • Received:2013-03-06 Revised:2013-04-18 Accepted:2013-04-18 Online:2013-04-18 Published:2013-04-18
  • Contact: WEI Guo
  • About author:ZHANG Chen, male, born in 1985,博士生. Research field: 多用户干扰对齐技术. E-mail: zhangzc@mail.ustc.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61171112), MIIT of China (2010ZX03005-001-02, 2012ZX03001037, 2010ZX03002-010-02).

Abstract: The subspace interference alignment for multi-cell and multi-user cellular networks was focused. Different from most previous algorithms that are based on a joint design of precoder and receive filter, the proposed method achieves interference alignment with precoder design only. This means our algorithm only requires the participation of transmitters, which will alleviate significantly the overhead induced by alternation between the up and down links. More importantly, varying from the traditional constrained optimization method, the precoder design on complex Grassmann manifold with lower dimensions was reformulated and a novel steepest descent algorithm was derived to achieve perfect subspace interference alignment. Simulation results suggest that the proposed algorithm has better convergence performance and higher system capacity compared with previous methods.

Key words: interference alignment, MIMO, cellular networks, Grassmann manifold, optimization, precoder

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