Coordinated transmit and receive processing with adaptive multi-stream selection

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an adaptive coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme for inter-user interference cancellation, when a base station (BS) communicates with multiple users that each has multiple receive antennas. The conventional coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme transmits a fixed number of data streams for each user regardless of the instantaneous channel states, that is, all the users, no matter they are with ill-conditioned or well-conditioned channels, have the same number of data streams. However, in the proposed adaptive coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme, we adaptively select the number of streams per user to solve the inefficient problem of the conventional coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme. As a result, the BER performance is improved. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the conventional co-ordinated Tx-Rx beamforming algorithm by 2.5dB at a target BER of 10^-2