Patent Application: US-201414452968-A

Abstract:
a method that includes interference control at transmitters and interference mitigation at receivers in a wireless communication system is disclosed . embodiments of the present invention exploit the interference sensitivity at neighboring terminals by taking into account the reciprocity of propagation radio channels in time division duplexing systems . it can be applied to design the resource allocation for downlink and uplink transmissions in a wireless communication system . the methods include the self - configuration of the transmit power , the transmit precoder and the receive filter , at each transmitter and receiver in a multi - cell network . systems are also provided and configured for implementing the methods of the invention .

Description:
the notation used in this disclosure is detailed in the following . scalars are denoted by italic letters . boldface lower - case and upper - case letters denote vectors and matrices , respectively . the function log 2 ( ) refers to the base - 2 logarithm . for a given matrix a , its transpose matrix is denoted as a t , its conjugate matrix as a *, its transpose conjugate matrix as a h and the matrix inverse as a − 1 . det ( a ) operator refers to the determinant of a , tr ( a ) to the trace of a , and e { a } to the expectation operator of each component in a . matrix i refers to the identity matrix . in all the equations involving transmit or receive filters , the per - antenna power of the signal is normalized relative to the transmitter ( bs or ue ) maximum transmitted power . embodiments of the present invention are found in the following methods and systems for decentralized self - configuration of the power , transmit precoding and receive filter ( or decoding ), in a multi - cell deployment . in these embodiments , bss and ues can be equipped with one , two , three , four or more antennas . the antennas at each bs can be either spatially distributed or collocated . in reference to fig1 a and fig1 b , they illustrate the intended dl signals and the interfering dl signals , respectively , in a communication between several bss and several ues present in the network . bs 105 is serving ue 101 , bs 106 is serving ue 102 , bs 107 serves ue 103 and bs 108 serves ue 104 . in fig1 a , links 115 , 126 , 137 and 148 represent the path gain between each bs and its serving ue . the interfering path gains are illustrated in fig1 b . in reference to fig1 c , it illustrates the received ul signals in a communication between several ues and several bss , where the received ul signal at each bs comes from a plurality of ues . links 151 , 161 , 171 , 181 , 152 , 162 , 172 , 182 , 153 , 163 , 173 , 183 , 154 , 164 , 174 and 184 represent the path gain between each ue and each bs . fig1 illustrates the role of a linear transmit filter ( t ) and a linear receive filter ( r ) in a wireless communication between one transmitter and one receiver . it can be applied either for dl or for ul transmission . the stream of transmitted symbols b 171 is spatially filtered into the transmitted signal x 174 through the linear transmit filter t that includes transmit power p 1 / 2 172 and transmit precoding v 173 as follows : x = tb = vp 1 / 2 b . the spatially filtered transmitted signal x has a length equal to the number of antennas at transmitter . after the wireless propagation through the mimo channel 175 , the received signal is denoted by y 176 , which is spatially filtered using the linear receive filter r 177 in order to recover the stream of transmitted symbols as follows : with the objective of maximizing the total weighted sum of data rates of the system , constrained by the maximum transmitted power at the bs i , the dl transmit filters of bss ( or equivalently the transmit beam - formers , when one layer is transmitted per ue ) are designed as the solution to the following optimization problem : maximize { t i } ∀ i ⁢ ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ μ i ⁢ r i ⁢ ⁢ s . t . ⁢ tr ⁡ ( t i ⁢ t i h ) ≤ p i max ⁢ ⁢ ∀ i , ( 1 ) where n is the total number of bs - ue pairs considering that each bs serves a single user in a given time / frequency resource , μ i is the user priority coefficient of ue i , r i is the data rate of ue i , t i is the dl transmit filter of the signal transmitted to ue i , p i max is the maximum available transmit power at bs i and tr (.) denotes the trace operator . the proper update of the user priority coefficients ( μ i ) can shape the system performance , from the greedy to the proportional fair operation mode [ kelly - 98 ]. the data rate of ue i is understood as the shannon capacity limit for the transmission towards ue i : r i = log 2 det ( i + h i , i t i t i h h i , i h n i − 1 ), ( 2 ) where h i , i denotes the complex channel matrix between bs i and its own ue i , which contains the channel gains between each ue antenna element and each bs antenna element , de (.) stands for the determinant operator , i refers to the identity matrix and n i corresponds to the covariance matrix of the received noise - plus - interference at ue i : n i = ∑ j = 1 n j ≠ i ⁢ h j , i ⁢ t j ⁢ t j h ⁢ h j , i h + σ i , ( 3 ) where h j , i , denotes the complex channel matrix between bs j and ue i , t j is the dl transmit filter matrix of the signal transmitted to ue j attached to neighbor bs j and σ i refers to the covariance matrix of the received noise at ue i . in case the noise could be modeled as additive white gaussian noise : σ i = σ i 2 i , being υ i 2 the received noise power . finally , superscripts h and − 1 indicate the hermitian transpose and the inverse operation , respectively . due to the interference existing on the scenario , the previous problem is not convex and the optimal solution cannot be guaranteed . nevertheless , it can be shown [ christensen - 08 ][ shi - 11 ] that one solution can be obtained by solving the following problem that considers minimization of the total weighted sum of mean square errors ( mses ) of the system , constrained by the maximum transmitted power at the bs i : minimize { t i } , { r i } ∀ i ⁢ ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ tr ⁡ ( w i ⁢ e i ) ⁢ ⁢ s . t . ⁢ tr ⁡ ( t i ⁢ t i h ) ≤ p i max ⁢ ⁢ ∀ i , ( 4 ) where w i is the error weighting matrix associated to ue i and e i corresponds to the mse - matrix , which contains in its diagonal the mse for the symbols transmitted towards ue i : e i = i + r i h h i , i t i t i h h i , i h r i − r i h h i , i t i + r i h n i r i , ( 5 ) where r i corresponds to the dl receive filter at ue i , defined in continuation in ( 12 ). problem in ( 4 ) is convex on dl transmit filters for a fixed dl receive filters , and the other way round . further , optimal expressions for dl transmit filters can be derived analytically for a fixed set of dl receive filters , and the other way round . so , a local optimum of the problem in . ( 4 ) can be found by alternate optimization between dl transmit filters and dl receive filters . then , the sum of mean square error of the system is minimized . in contrast , see [ christensen - 08 ][ shi - 11 ], the maximization of the total weighted sum of data rates of the system ( problem presented in ( 1 )) is obtained by using : being ē i the mse - matrix obtained every time the transmitters and receivers are updated ( in the previous iteration of the alternate optimization between dl transmit filters and dl receive filters ). the problem in ( 4 ), which is solved in a centralized mode in the prior art , is solved in this invention in a decentralized way ; each bs i optimizes the dl transmit filter t i towards its associated ue i according to : minimize t i , r i ∀ i ⁢ ⁢ tr ⁡ ( w i ⁢ e i ) + tr ⁡ ( υ i ⁢ t i ⁢ t i h ) , ⁢ s . t . ⁢ tr ⁡ ( t i ⁢ t i h ) ≤ p i max ⁢ ( 8 ) where γ i is an interference cost matrix that reflects the interference created by bs i towards users in neighboring cells and is equal to : υ i = ∑ j = 1 n j ≠ i ⁢ h i , j h ⁢ r j ⁢ w j ⁢ r j h ⁢ h i , j , ( 9 ) where h i , i denotes the complex channel matrix between bs i and ue j attached to bs j , and r j , is the dl receive filter of the signal transmitted to ue j by its serving bs , presented in ( 5 ), continuation in ( 12 ). the decentralized problem in ( 8 ) is convex on the dl transmit filter t i and the dl receive filter r i , separately , and the optimal expressions can be analytically derived . transmit filter design at each bs : for a given interference cost matrix γ i , problem in ( 8 ) can be solved at each bs i by alternate optimization between the dl transmit filter and the dl receive filter , which expressions are given next : t i =( h i , i h r i w i r i h h i , i + γ i + λ i i ) − 1 h i , i h r i w i where λ i is a scalar parameter that allows to meet the transmit power constraint in ( 8 ). such alternate optimization between transmit and receive filters at each bs requires knowledge of the interference cost matrix γ i , an estimated version of the mimo propagation channel h i , i and the interference - plus - noise covariance matrix at the ue n i . so , each ue should report n i to the serving bs . in case such report is not possible , alternative approximations can be used : i ) if the ue can report the interference - plus - noise received power ( denoted by p n i ), then n i = p n i i could be used in ( 10 ), ii ) if no kind of report from the ue is possible the transmit filters at each bs could be computed following the first equation in ( 10 ) based on the knowledge of . further alternatives could be proposed . such optimization at each bs is implemented in the digital signal processing ( dsp ) block at the bs controller . the dl transmit filter t i includes both the transmit power ( represented by a diagonal real - valued matrix p i 1 / 2 ) and the transmit precoding ( represented by a spatial complex - valued matrix v i ). so , after the optimization and for practical implementation , t i can be decomposed as : receive filter design at each ue : once designed the dl transmit filters for each bs i , t i , the dl receive filter at each ue i is obtained following an mmse criterion as : r i =( h i , i t i t i h h i , i h + n i ) − 1 h i , i t i , ( 12 ) which can be implemented at each ue based on the estimation of the equivalent channel h i , j t i that includes propagation and transmit filter , and the estimation of the covariance matrix of the received interference - plus - noise signal n i . in 3gpp lte - a [ 3gpp - tr36829 ], dl receive filter in ( 12 ) corresponds to the linear mmse interference rejection combiner ( lmmse - irc ). the decentralized problem in ( 8 ) can easily be extended to the following cases : 1 ) each bs serves multiple ues simultaneously on the same time and frequency resource ( multi - user mimo ). the decentralized problem to be solved at bs i is : where sub - index n i refers to user n served by bs i , n i is the total number of users attached to bs i . the mse - matrix e n i and the received noise - plus - interference covariance matrix n n i at user n served by bs i are given by 2 ) per - antenna or per group of antennas power constraints are included to the optimization problem . the decentralized problem to be solved is : where b l denotes a matrix with all zeros except for the diagonal elements that refer to the antennas indexes included in the lth group of antennas power constraint or individual power constraint , in which it has a one . if per - antenna power constraints are considered , l coincides with the number of transmit antennas . 3 ) a plurality of carrier frequencies , as in a multicarrier system , is available . the decentralized problem to be solved is : where super - index k refers to the carrier frequency and p i k max is the available transmit power for carrier frequency k at bs i . 4 ) maximum transmission rate constraints are considered , as it happens for the maximum modulation coding schemes ( mcs ) allowed at the lte . the decentralized problem to be solved is : where r i max is the transmission rate at ue i supported by the maximum modulation and coding scheme . the objective of embodiment 1 is to describe the communication process and the configuration of the system parameters required to acquire the interfering cost , ( 9 ), at each bs present in the wireless communication system . embodiments 2 , 3 and 4 provide a detailed description of the systems for implementing the method of the invention . more specifically , they describe different iterative procedures so as to iterate between dl and ul transmissions through which the self - configuration of the transmit filter ( including transmit power and transmit precoding ) and the receive filter is achieved while preemptively managing the interference created in the network . the knowledge of the interference cost matrix γ i , ( 9 ), at bs i allows managing the interference created by bs i towards unintended ues attached to other bss . in this regard , fig2 illustrates how the dl transmit and receive filters are designed in a deployment with 2 bss and 1 ue attached to each bs . first , each bs i designs its dl transmit filter t i . ( along with r i ) based on the equation ( 10 ), using the knowledge of the channel matrix towards its associated ue h i , i ( 201 , 208 ), the weighting matrix w i ( 203 , 210 ) and an estimation of the interference cost matrix { circumflex over ( γ )} i ( 202 , 209 ). the design is done by solving the decentralized optimization problem in ( 8 )( or one of the extended versions in ( 13 ), ( 15 ), ( 16 ), or ( 17 )) with γ i , { circumflex over ( γ )} i =( 204 , 211 ). then , the dl receive filter r i is computed at each ue i ( 205 , 212 ) by means of equation ( 12 ) based on the knowledge of the equivalent complex channel matrix towards its associated bs h i , i t i ( 205 , 212 ), and the covariance matrix of the received interference - plus - noise n i ( 207 , 214 ). at each ue i , the knowledge of h i , i and t i is obtained jointly through the estimation of a single variable : h i , i t i . each bs can have an estimation of the interference cost matrix γ i by exploiting the received signal in the uplink if the following two conditions are satisfied : 1 ) propagation channel reciprocity can be assumed , as in a tdd system with slow varying channel for duplexing ul and dl transmissions , and 2 ) ues transmit simultaneously in the ul with a ul transmit filter ( defined in next equation ( 19 )) that is designed for each ue i based on its dl receive filter r i , its weighting matrix w i and its maximum transmitted power . if the first condition is satisfied , the covariance matrix of the received interference - plus - noise signal at bs i in the ul transmission ω i is : ψ i = ∑ j = 1 n j ≠ 1 ⁢ h i , j t ⁢ t ← j ⁢ t ← j h ⁢ h i , j * + σ ← i , ( 18 ) where denotes the ul transmit filter of the signal transmitted by ue j and refers to the covariance matrix of the received noise at bs i . superscripts t and * indicate the transpose and the complex conjugate operation , respectively . where f & lt ; 1 is a common cell - wide scaling factor ( the same for all ues in the system ) that allows to restrict the transmit power used at ues , and the superscript ½ refers to the cholesky decomposition w i = w i 1 / 2 ( w i 1 / 2 ) h , then the interference cost matrix γ i can be estimated from the received signal at bs i as a function of the complex conjugate of the covariance of the received interference - plus - noise signal in the ul transmission ( ψ i ): where { circumflex over ( γ )} i denotes the estimation of the interference cost matrix γ i . fig3 illustrates how each bs obtains knowledge of the interference cost matrix γ i thanks to the proper design of ul transmit filters at the ues , for a simple deployment with 2 bss and 1 ue attached to each bs . ul transmit filters are designed according to ( 19 ) ( 303 , 308 ), based on the knowledge of the dl receive filter r i ( 301 , 306 ) and the weighting matrix w i ( 302 , 307 ). then , each bs i estimates its interference cost matrix γ i based on the covariance matrix of the received interference - plus - noise signal in the ul . notice that , in the ul transmission there is no need for bss to receive data content from the signals transmitted by ues . hence , spatially filtered symbols can be transmitted . due to the fact that ul transmit filters design of ue depends on the weighting matrix w i , fig4 illustrates how the weighting matrix w i is calculated at ue i following equation ( 7 ) when the objective is the maximization of the system weighted sum of data rates with constraints on the total transmitted power at bss . the proper design of w i depends on the user priority coefficient of ue i μ i ( 403 ) and on its mse - previous matrix ē i that can be calculated using ( 5 ), which is obtained at ue i based on the knowledge of the equivalent complex channel matrix towards its associated bs h i , i t i ( 401 ), and the interference - plus - noise covariance matrix n i ( 402 ). fig6 illustrates the block diagram corresponding to embodiment 2 as applied to a wireless cellular communication system . first , each base station bs i acquires or updates the knowledge of the complex channel matrix towards its own ue i h i , i ( 601 ), which contains the channel gains between each ue antenna element and each bs antenna element . the channel state acquisition can be done either at the bs by exploiting channel reciprocity or at the ue and then reported to the bs . once this information is available at bs i , the dl transmit and receive filters are calculated in a decentralized manner as it is described in embodiment 1 and fig2 , and dl data transmission is carried out ( 602 ). based on the knowledge of the dl receive filter at each ue , the ul transmit filter is designed as it is described in embodiment 1 and fig3 ( 603 ) and an ul non - data transmission is carried out ( 604 ). the ul non - data transmission by non - associated ue j allows bs i to estimate the interference cost matrix based on the covariance matrix of the received ul interference - plus - noise signal and , based on this estimation , the dl transmit filters are updated in a decentralized manner ( 605 ) as it is described in embodiment 1 and fig2 . then , previous steps are repeated from 602 to 605 . fig5 a illustrates these steps as applied to a tdd wireless communication system . 501 , 503 , 505 and 507 correspond to intervals devoted for dl data transmissions ; 502 , 504 and 506 refer to intervals allocated for ul non - data transmissions . each time that an ul non - data transmission ( short interval duration ) is carried out , the dl transmit and receive filters are updated and system performance ( in terms of weighted sum of data rates ) is increased . fig7 illustrates the block diagram corresponding to embodiment 3 as applied to the dl of a wireless cellular communication system . first , each base station bs i acquires or updates the knowledge of the complex channel matrix towards its own ue i h i , i ( 701 ), which contains the channel gains between each ue antenna element and each bs antenna element . the channel state acquisition can be done either at the bs by exploiting channel reciprocity or at the ue and then reported to the bs . once this information is available at bs i the dl transmit filters are calculated in a decentralized manner as it is described in embodiment 1 and fig2 , and dl non - data transmission is carried out ( 702 ). based on the knowledge of the received interference - plus - noise at each ue , the ul transmit filter is designed as it is described in embodiment 1 and fig3 ( 703 ) and an ul non - data transmission is carried out ( 704 ). the ul non - data transmission allows bs i to estimate the interference cost matrix based on the covariance matrix of the received ul interference - plus - noise signal and , based on this estimation , the dl transmit filters are updated in a decentralized manner as it is described in embodiment 1 and fig2 ( 705 ). the dl and ul non - data transmissions are repeated until the optimal performance is achieved or the maximum allowed number of iterations is reached . then , dl data transmission is carried out ( 707 ), where transmit and receive filters are computed in a decentralized manner as it is described in embodiment 1 and fig2 as long as the channel coefficients do not change . fig5 b illustrates these steps as applied to a tdd wireless communication system . 508 , 510 and 512 correspond to intervals devoted for dl non - data transmissions ; 509 , 511 and 513 refer to intervals allocated for ul non - data transmissions ; and 514 corresponds to the interval devoted for dl data transmission . each time that an ul non - data transmission is carried out , the dl transmit filters are updated and they are used for dl non - data transmission in order to update the dl receive filters . this alternate dl and ul non - data transmission can be repeated one or several times until , at the end , dl data transmission is carried out . fig8 illustrates the block diagram corresponding to embodiment 4 as applied to a wireless cellular communication system . first , each base station bs i acquires or updates an estimation of the complex channel matrix towards its own user i h i , i ( 801 ), which contains the channel gains between each ue antenna element and each bs antenna element . the acquisition of the channel state estimation can be done either at the bs by exploiting channel reciprocity or at the ue and then reported to the bs . once this information is available at bs i , the downlink transmit and receive filters are calculated in a decentralized manner as it is described in embodiment 1 and fig2 , and dl data transmission is carried out ( 802 ). based on the knowledge of the dl receive filter at each ue i the ul transmit filter and the ul receive filter are designed as it is described in embodiment 1 and fig3 ( 803 ) and ul data transmission is carried out ( 804 ). the ul data transmission in addition to exchange data with bs it allows bs i to estimate the interference cost matrix based on the covariance matrix of the received ul interference - plus - noise signal . during ul data transmission reference signals should be considered in order that each bs could estimate the actual transmit filter used by its associated ue and , hence , receive the data . the dl transmit filters are updated in a decentralized manner as it is detailed in embodiment 1 and fig2 ( 805 ). then , previous steps are repeated from 802 to 805 . fig5 c illustrates these steps as applied to a tdd wireless communication system . 515 , 517 and 519 correspond to intervals devoted for dl data transmissions ; 516 and 508 refer to intervals allocated for ul data transmissions . each time that an ul data transmission is carried out , the dl transmit and receive filters are updated and system performance is increased . the simulated scenario follows the small cell scenario # 2a in [ 3gpp - sce ]. a list of parameters is provided in fig9 . the simulations targeted the scenario # 2a with one cluster per macrocell area and 4 or 10 small cells per cluster . in [ 3gpp - sce ], the cluster defines the area where small cells are deployed . fig1 shows the cluster , macrocell , small cell and user location for each layout configuration . decentralized coordinated beamforming with precoding design based on channel reciprocity for interference coordination ( decent . cb with cr in figures ): interference management technique detailed in embodiment 1 . decentralized beamforming without interference management ( decent . b without im in figures ): no management of interference is performed , each bs designs its transmit filters to combat the received noise plus interference at its associated ue . enhanced inter - cell interference coordination with time domain muting and a muting ratio equal to 5 / 10 ( eicic tdm 5 / 10 in figures ): interference is managed thanks to almost blank subframes , in which each bs is muted 5 subframes and transmits the other 5 subframes . the performances of said techniques are evaluated for users served by small cells in the 3 . 5 ghz band . the performance indicator is sum throughput ( st ) per macrocell area measured in bits / s / hz and defined as : st = total amount of data for all users in 3 . 5 ghz / total amount of observation time / total amount of bandwidth / number of macrocells fig1 shows the st achieved on each resource block ( rb ) or subband for the layout configurations depicted in fig1 . significant st gains are observed thanks to the proposed interference management technique for precoding design based on channel reciprocity . embodiments 2 and 3 of the present invention use a ul non - data transmission to get the desired information for dl precoding design . said step can be done in lte - advanced standard by using the already defined ul sounding reference signals ( srs ) properly configured . periodicity of the srs : 2 , 5 , 10 , 20 , 40 , 80 , 160 or 320 ms ; srs mode : frequency - hopping mode or wide - band mode . in the frequency - hopping mode the srs are transmitted on a specific subband , while in the wide - band mode the srs are transmitted in all the ul bandwidth ; and hopping scheduling ( in case of frequency - hopping mode ), which indicates the subband to be used by the ue at each time instant . for the embodiments of the present invention , the proper configuration of the srs involves frequency - hopping mode because the sounding has to be different for each subband the user is scheduled to as the dl interference to be managed varies among subbands . the periodicity of the srs and the hopping scheduling depend on the specific method to be adopted . however , as srs are allocated to the last ofdm symbols of the uplink pilot time slot ( uppts ) in the synchronization ( sync ) subframe in a tdd system [ 3gpp - sce ], the minimum periodicity of the srs is 5 ms which corresponds to the dl - to - ul switch - point periodicity . component carrier specific ul power control is available , but there is not component subband specific ul power control . so , for a given time instant , the user can only do the ul sounding adjusting the ul transmit filter in a specific subband . in case that component subband specific ul power control was available , a user could be assigned to multiple subbands and do the ul sounding for these subbands simultaneously in time . the baseline for srs operation is non - precoded and antenna - specific , i . e . srs are transmitted using only one antenna . this fact implies that , as the ue has more than 1 dl receive antenna , multiple srs transmissions multiplexed in time are needed ( the same as the number of dl receive antennas ) to get the desired ul signal at the cost of increasing the received noise . if a new type of srs was defined , only 1 srs transmission would be required independently of the number of dl receive antennas at the ue . the current srs have a minimum length equivalent to 4 rbs . if a new type of srs was defined , more sounding granularity could be obtained to adapt the design according to channel variations . in the following , different methods are described based on the modifications that the lte - advanced standard could admit or not . for each method , assumptions , srs configuration , requirements and implications are detailed in fig1 . small cell scenario # 2a in [ 3gpp - sce ] and a low mobility scenario are used , such that the channel coherence time ( t c ) is 25 ms at 3 . 5 ghz band and user speed of 3 km / h . then , the maximum srs periodicity is 20 ms . the total bandwidth is described by the number of resource blocks ( rbs ): b = 16 , and s refers to the number of subbands in which the b rbs are divided . methods a and b in the sequel do not require any modification in lte - advanced release 11 . in method a , the sounding is done in all subbands simultaneously in time , so that each ue can only be scheduled to a single subband as it is not able to apply component subband power control . in method b , the sounding for each subband is done in different time instants , hence implying that a specific ue could be scheduled to multiple subbands but the number of subbands is limited by the channel coherence time . method c uses component subband specific ul power control . such procedure becomes independent of the number of subbands and allows more flexibility in the user scheduling process and srs periodicity than methods a and b . method d uses component subband specific ul power control and the definition of a new type of srs including precoding and a minimum length equivalent to 1 rb . method d is non - dependent of the number of subbands , the number of receive antennas at user nor inter - subband channel variations , hence allowing more flexibility in the user scheduling process , srs periodicity and sounding granularity than previous methods . fig1 a and fig1 b illustrate method a and method b , respectively , in a time / frequency grid for b = 16 rbs and s = 4 subbands . assuming that a specific bs has 2 users to be scheduled , a possible scheduling of ues in the available subbands is shown . fig1 a displays method c in a time / frequency grid for b = 16 rbs and s = 4 subbands . fig1 b shows method d in a time / frequency grid for b = 16 rbs and s = 16 subbands . assuming that a specific bs has two users ( user 1 and user 2 ) to be scheduled , a possible scheduling of users in the available subbands is shown . embodiment 2 of the present invention is the most suitable procedure for implementation in 3gpp lte - advanced , as the use of ul non - data transmission to broadcast the interference cost allows not degrading ul data transmission and the presented procedure is able to dynamically include new users appearing and disappearing in the system . in this regard , fig1 provides the detailed steps as applied to a tdd lte - advanced wireless communication system . the transmission is carried out in five slots alternating dl and ul transmissions , each including control - plane and data - plane information transmission . control - plane transmission ( 1501 ): dl control - plane information is broadcasted , from which the user updates the receive filter r 0 ; data - plane transmission ( 1502 ): dl data transmission is carried out by means of transmit filter t 0 at a specific mcs 0 ; sounding reference signals transmission ( 1503 ): bss acquire knowledge of the interference cost matrix to properly update transmit filters t 1 in next dl slot ( 1506 , 1507 ); control - plane transmission ( 1504 ): users communicate to the serving bs the most suitable mcs 1 to be applied in the next dl slots ( 1507 , 1511 ); control - plane transmission ( 1506 ): update of the dl receive filter r 1 ; data - plane transmission ( 1507 ): dl data transmission is carried out with dl transmit filter t 1 designed at 1503 , and mcs 1 reported at 1504 ; control - plane transmission ( 1508 ): mcs 2 to be applied in the next dl slot ( 1510 , 1511 ) is reported ; control - plane transmission ( 1510 ): update of the dl receive filter r 2 ; data - plane transmission ( 1511 ): dl data transmission is carried out with dl transmit filter t 1 designed at 1503 , and mcs 2 reported at 1508 ; while preferred embodiments of the invention have been shown and described herein , it will be understood that such embodiments are provided by way of example only . numerous variations , changes and substitutions will occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention . accordingly , it is intended that the appended claims cover all such variations as fall within the spirit and scope of the invention . 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