Interference Suppression and Receiving Performance Improvement for Local Cooperation with Channel Estimation Error

In the next-generation wireless communication systems, the local cooperation between different units may be deployed to satisfy communication requirements. In this case, the interference suppression between different units and the receiving performance improvement for each single unit should be considered. Multiple schemes have been utilized to solve these problems. However, these schemes ordinarily require sufficiently accurate information of channel, if this accuracy can not be maintained (e.g., channel estimation error can not be ignored), these schemes may not obtain the satisfactory performances. To overcome this disadvantage, in this paper, a novel scheme is proposed. The proposed scheme has several characteristics: (i) a low-complexity extra estimation is implemented to acquire more information of channel estimation error; (ii) with the help of channel estimation error information, each unit can separately execute a two-step process for interference suppression and receiving performance improvement; (iii) no exorbitant information interaction and high-overhead algorithm are needed between multiple units. Through characteristic analysis and numerical results, it is found the proposed scheme can achieve the satisfactory effect in the locally cooperative network.