Robust Interference Cancellation Using Bi-Unknown Vectors Equations for User-Centric C-RANs

The user-centric cloud radio access network (C-RAN) is promising for significantly reducing the channel training overhead because only the intra-cluster channel state information (CSI) is required. However, the inter-cluster interference may degrade the network performance. To address this problem, we present a novel framework for the uplink of user-centric C-RANs where the interference cancellation is posed as a system of bi-unknown vectors linear equations. To solve this unusual system of equations, we propose a quasi-least squares (QLS) algorithm and analyze its robustness by exploiting the random matrix theory. We reveal the fact that QLS is very sensitive to the channel estimation error due to involving the inverse of an ill-conditioned matrix. It is well known that truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) is an effective regularization scheme that can mitigate this ill-conditioning effect. Accordingly, we employ TSVD to further improve the robustness of QLS against the imperfect channel estimation. In addition, since the performance of the TSVD based algorithm strongly depends on the truncation parameter, a parameter-choice method using the constant modulus (CM) feature is also provided. Finally, simulation results are presented to examine the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.