Hybrid scheme for three-cell multi-user MIMO cellular networks

Orthogonal schemes are usually adopted for cell-edge users in a cellular network, where the spectrum is poorly utilized. A new interference alignment (IA) based space-division hybrid (IA-SDH) scheme is proposed by joint design transmit precoding matrices and beamforming matrices for a three-cell constant cellular network, where users at cell-center work with a conventional scheme while users at cell-edge utilize an IA scheme. Therefore, the cell-edge users suffer no interference and cell-center users are only affected by negligible inter-cell interference. Analysis simulation shows that more users can be served simultaneously than that of a conventional scheme in certain user distributions.