Optimized Data Sharing in Multicell MIMO With Finite Backhaul Capacity

Abstract

This paper addresses cooperation in a multicell environment where base stations (BSs) wish to jointly serve multiple users, under a constrained-capacity backhaul. We point out that for finite backhaul capacity a trade-off between sharing user data, which allows for full MIMO cooperation, and not doing so, which reduces the setup to an interference channel but also requires less overhead, emerges. We optimize this trade-off by formulating a rate splitting approach in which non-shared data (private to each transmitter) and shared data are superposed. We derive the corresponding achievable rate region and obtain the optimal beamforming design for both shared and private symbols. We show how the capacity of the backhaul can be used to determine how much of the user data is worth sharing across multiple BSs, particularly depending on how strong the interference is. this constraint, allowing for user messages to be shared at multiple transmitters so that a giant broadcast MIMO channel ensues. In such a scenario, multicell processing in the form of joint precoding is realized,

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