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Iterative Algorithms for Interference Alignment in Cellular Network

셀룰러 네트워크상의 간섭정렬을 위한 반복 알고리즘

  • 여정호 (포항공과대학교 전자전기공학과 통신 및 정보 시스템 연구실) ;
  • 조준호 (포항공과대학교 전자전기공학과 통신 및 정보 시스템 연구실)
  • Received : 2012.08.31
  • Accepted : 2012.10.12
  • Published : 2012.10.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose iterative algorithms to obtain the transmit and the receive vectors for interference alignment in cellular network. Although the conventional interference alignment algorithms for interference channels can be applied to cellular network, the number of iterations required to achieve a high sum rate is very large. The key idea in the proposed algorithms is to ignore intra-cell interference in updating the transmit vector for uplink and the receive vector for downlink. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithms achieve higher sum rates than the conventional algorithms for given iteration numbers when multiple antennas and a single carrier are used for interference alignment. It is also shown that the proposed algorithms outperform the conventional algorithms when a single antenna and multiple subcarriers are used for interference alignment.

본 논문에서는 셀룰러 네트워크상의 간섭정렬을 위한 송수신벡터를 구하는 반복 알고리즘들을 제안한다. 기존의 간섭채널상의 간섭정렬을 위해 고안된 반복 알고리즘을 셀룰러 네트워크에 적용하는 것이 물론 가능하지만, 높은 합용량을 달성하려면 큰 반복횟수가 필요하다. 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘의 핵심은 상향링크의 송신벡터 그리고 하향링크의 수신벡터를 갱신할 때 셀내간섭을 고려하지 않는다는 점이다. 모의실험은 간섭정렬을 위해 다중안테나와 단일 반송파가 사용되었을 때, 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 알고리즘보다 주어진 반복횟수에서 월등히 높은 합용량을 달성함을 보인다. 또한 제안된 알고리즘이 간섭정렬을 위해 단일 안테나와 다중 부반송파가 사용되었을 때도 기존 간섭정렬 알고리즘보다 성능이 우수함을 보인다.

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