CSI sharing strategies for transmitter cooperation in wireless networks

de Kerret, Paul; Gesbert, David
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, special issue on Multicell Cooperation, February 2013, Volume 20, N°1

Multiple-antenna "based" transmitter (TX) cooperation has been established as a promising tool towards avoiding, aligning, or shaping the interference resulting from aggressive spectral reuse. The price paid in the form of feedback and exchanging channel state information (CSI) between cooperating devices in most existing methods is often underestimated however. In reality, feedback and information overhead threatens the practicality and scalability of TX cooperation approaches in dense networks. Hereby we addresses a "Who needs to know what?" problem, when it comes to CSI at cooperating transmitters. A comprehensive answer to this question remains beyond our reach and the scope of this paper. Nevertheless, recent results in this area suggest that CSI overhead can be contained for even large networks provided the allocation of feedback to TXs is made non-uniform and to properly depend on

the network's topology. This paper provides a few hints toward solving the problem.


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2013-02-01
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Communication systems
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3863
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