Cell partitioned M-QAM for semi-blind uplink interference suppression on multicell massive MIMO systems

摘要

This letter adopts higher-order modulation scheme than 16QAM to our previously proposed semi-blind uplink interference suppression scheme for multicell multiuser massive MIMO systems. Our semi-blind approach is attained by the decision feedback channel estimation (DFCE) and the sample matrix inversion (SMI) spatial adaptive filtering. However, its efficiency depended on inter-cell interference (ICI), in particular for higher-order QAM. We propose to employ cell partitioning-based M-ary QAM to avoid ICI at the initial condition and verify overall spectral efficiency improvement.