RELAY BEAMFORMING TO MITIGATE INTER-RELAY INTERFERENCE IN MULTI-CELL SCENARIO
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v78.8890Keywords:
Beamforming, inter-relay interference, singular value decomposition, zero-forcing, sub-frame misalignment, ergodic capacity, outage probability, LTE-AAbstract
In relay assisted Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) network, enhanced Node B (eNB) autonomously selects different backhaul sub-frame configurations to adopt traffic variations, which might cause inter-relay interference (IRI) between relay nodes (RNs) in adjacent cells. IRI can happen due to asynchronous transmission between adjacent cells, which results in IRI from the access link to the backhaul link of adjacent relay in the downlink direction and vice versa. This causes severe loss in system capacity and introduces high outage probability. In this article, we consider the IRI problem in a multi-cell relaying system. Previous studies consider the beamforming design for cooperative relay network as a single-cell problem, without taking into account the occurrence of IRI. However, the performance of the RN assisted network is limited by the IRI from adjacent RN. A hybrid zero-forcing and singular value decomposition (ZF-SVD) beamforming technique is proposed to eliminate the IRI. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme out-performs the comparable scheme in both the ergodic capacity and outage probability.
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