Co-Channel Interference Cancellation for Downlink Block Transmission with Cyclic Prefix

Abstract

This paper proposes co-channel interference cancellation / equalization methods for downlink block transmission with cyclic prefix in multi-cell environments using multiple receiving antennas and iterative least-square (LS) interference cancellation. Due to circulant structure of channel matrices in block transmission schemes with cyclic prefix, pseudo inverse matrices, which is required in the iterative LS method, can be obtained with low computational complexity and is multiplied to the received signal in an efficient manner. Computer simulation results show that the proposed iterative LS interference cancellation and equalization method can achieve almost the same bit error rate (BER) performance as an minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) approach with lower computational complexity and without noise variance estimation.