A clustering scheme based on timing requirements in coordinated base-stations cooperative communications

To the best of our knowledge, the existing clustering schemes in coordinated multi-point (CoMP) systems do not take into consideration the timing synchronization requirements of the users´ signals at the cooperating base stations. In this paper, a clustering scheme that can satisfy these requirements is proposed. With the aid of simulations, we compare this scheme to a clustering scheme that does not take these requirements into consideration and show that our scheme has better performance in high SNRs and it has less system complexity.