Virtual Cell Beamforming in Cooperative Networks

We study the coordinated transmission problem in cooperative cellular networks where a cluster of base stations forms a virtual cell to serve a mobile station (MS). The performance of such an MS-centric virtual cell network is dictated by the beamformer that enables to suppress interference; however, designing a beamformer is highly challenging due to the coupled nature of interference and desired signals under arbitrarily formed virtual cells. We develop a new formulation of the beamforming problem for sum-rate maximization in virtual cell networks and analyze the structure of its optimal solutions. Based on this analysis, we develop a beamforming algorithm that can balance between desired signal maximization and interference minimization, so as to maximize the sum-rate. We show through extensive simulations that our balanced beamforming algorithm mitigates edge user effect and outperforms existing algorithms in various scenarios where virtual cells are allowed to overlap.

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