Interference Alignment for VFDM Based Uplink Transmission in Two-Tiered Networks

In this work, we study the problem of interference in a two-tiered uplink network which contains a macro-cell and multiple small-cells. We null the interference from small-cells to macro-cell by using Vandermonde-subspace frequency division multiplexing (VFDM). VFDM can exploit frequency selectivity and null space generated by the cyclic prefixes (CP) used by the macro-cell communication. We use an interference alignment (IA) scheme with an extension of a grouping method to align the interference between multiple small-cells into a lower dimensional-subspace, by using this grouping method we reduce the number of receive antennas required to null interference. Finally, we derive the achievable degrees of freedom (DoF).

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