A multi-user receiver for PUCCH LTE FORMAT 1 in non-cooperative multi-cell architectures

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new multi-user receiver processing for PUCCH LTE that counteracts the ICI in a non-cooperative multi-cell architecture. Using the fact that the received signal in PUCCH signaling follows a constrained tensor model, a multi-user receiver based on an iterative joint channel/code estimation and symbol detection is proposed. The interest in such a challenging setting relies on the overhead reduction among neighboring cells. Simulation results show remarkable performance gains of the proposed receiver compared to the conventional time-frequency decorrelator based receiver under the same conditions. We also show a performance comparison with the cooperative version of such a tensor receiver.