Codebook Based Interference Alignment in Uplink Coordinated Multipoint Systems

Interference alignment (IA) in uplink coordinated multipoint (CoMP) has been proved to be able to improve the performance in next generation mobile cellular systems. In this paper, an efficient codebook-based Max-SINR IA aided uplink (UL) CoMP scheme with full cooperation at the receiver is proposed. Compared to conventional IA, codebook-based IA requires less feedback information and maintains the same significant improvement in system capacity. To avoid the exhaustive precoder search in codebook-based IA, the K-Best selection algorithm is adopted to efficiently perform precoder selection. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed codebook-based IA and K-Best precoder selection algorithm can achieve a significant performance gain especially in severe interference environments.