Asymptotic Sum Rate in Spatially Correlated Two-Cell Channel With User Scheduling

Abstract

Coordinated beamforming (CBF) provides improved sum rate with less overhead and computational complexity, and its theoretical performance analysis is mostly finished in a spatially uncorrelated environment. In this paper, we investigate the effect of spatial correlation on the sum rate of a two-cell multiuser downlink channel. We analyze the scaling laws of the sum rate with a large number of users. To improve the performance, different roles are assigned to the two cells: One is a master cell, and the other is a slave cell. The base station (BS) of the master cell requests the interference cancelation to the slave cell, and the BS of the slave cell performs precoding to cancel the interference influencing over the master cell, although the achievable rate of the slave cell is decreased. The decision of the master and slave cells can be affected by the number of users and the degree of spatial correlations. From computer-based simulations, we show that our proposed algorithm can achieve a higher sum rate than other previous approaches with lower overhead.