System and method for joint MIMO transmission and compression for interference mitigation with cooperative relay

摘要

System and method embodiments are provided for interference mitigation and signal enhancement in downlink wireless communications for MIMO systems with device-to-device communications across cooperating user terminals. In an embodiment, a network controller initializes a transmit covariance for beam-forming a transmit signal of the MIMO transmission from a base-station to a destination terminal and a relay terminal, and initializes a quantization noise covariance used for compressing a relay signal from the relay terminal to the destination. The transmit covariance and the quantization noise covariance are initialized in accordance with known channel state information and with statistics of noise and interference for transmit and relay channels. The transmit covariance and the quantization noise covariance are then jointly optimized using an iterative algorithm in accordance with a capacity constraint on a relay link between the relay terminal and the destination terminal and a transmit signal power constraint of the base-station.