Efficient interference alignment aided transceiver design for LTE-A uplink coordinated multipoint systems

An efficient interference alignment (IA) aided transceiver design algorithm for uplink (UL) coordinated multipoint (CoMP) systems is proposed to mitigate interference. We use the block QR decomposition (BQRD) to resolve the interdependency of precoders among user equipment (UE) through the successive interference cancellation (SIC) technique. To further improve the efficiency, an additional constraint is employed by a projection operation. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm substantially reduces iterations and obtain comparable performance as in conventional approaches.