Abstract
With the rapid development in wireless communication technologies, interference has become a main impediment to network performance, making interference management (IM) a critical issue. Interference steering (IS) is emerging as a novel way of IM, which can steer the spatial feature of interference to a target subspace by exploiting the interactions of multiple signals over the air to avoid the disturbance to the interfered receiver. In reality, there always exists multiple interferences from single or multiple sources. We propose three ways to realize IS. The first two of them are categorized as individual interference steering (IIS), in which multiple interfering signals are separately adjusted to either an identical direction ( a single-target IS , STIS) or different directions ( multi-target IS , MTIS), incurring single or multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs) overheads, respectively. Furthermore, by recognizing that the goal of IM is to limit the effect of interference—i.e., the effective portion of interference imposed on the intended transmission— we propose aggregated interference steering (AIS) that exploits the constructive or destructive effects of multiple interfering signals. By considering the overall effect of multiple interferences, the DoF cost of AIS is reduced to one regardless of the number of interference to be managed. Finally, the proposed three IS realizations are adapted to minimize the power cost of steering interference. Our theoretical analysis and in-depth simulation results have shown that the proposed IS schemes can effectively manage multiple interference via better utilizing the DoF and transmit power. The AIS is shown to be advantageous in both power cost and DoF consumption.
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