{"id":"https://openalex.org/W1985614579","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2015.2402121","title":"User-Centric Intercell Interference Nulling for Downlink Small Cell Networks","display_name":"User-Centric Intercell Interference Nulling for Downlink Small Cell Networks","publication_year":2015,"publication_date":"2015-02-10","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W1985614579","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2015.2402121","mag":"1985614579"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/tcomm.2015.2402121","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2015.2402121","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S196647941","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Communications","issn_l":"0090-6778","issn":["0090-6778","1558-0857"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316002","host_organization_name":"IEEE Communications Society","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316002","https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["IEEE Communications Society","Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Communications","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100429541","display_name":"Chang Li","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1341-2672"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","display_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/00q4vv597","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Chang Li","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong","Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100433167","display_name":"Jun Zhang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5222-1898"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","display_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/00q4vv597","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Jun Zhang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong","Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5003896287","display_name":"Martin Haenggi","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8547-0607"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I107639228","display_name":"University of Notre Dame","ror":"https://ror.org/00mkhxb43","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I107639228"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Martin Haenggi","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA","[Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA]"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I107639228"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"[Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA]","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I107639228"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5079052203","display_name":"Khaled B. Letaief","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2519-6401"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","display_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/00q4vv597","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Khaled B. Letaief","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong","Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":12.9869,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":117,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.99078051,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":91,"max":100},"biblio":{"volume":"63","issue":"4","first_page":"1419","last_page":"1431"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10148","display_name":"Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization","score":1.0,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2208","display_name":"Electrical and Electronic Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10148","display_name":"Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization","score":1.0,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2208","display_name":"Electrical and Electronic Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10796","display_name":"Cooperative Communication and Network Coding","score":0.9993000030517578,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11409","display_name":"Advanced Wireless Network Optimization","score":0.9979000091552734,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2208","display_name":"Electrical and Electronic Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/interference","display_name":"Interference (communication)","score":0.7438329458236694},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.6524901390075684},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/telecommunications-link","display_name":"Telecommunications link","score":0.6017245054244995},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/cellular-network","display_name":"Cellular network","score":0.5785044431686401},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/base-station","display_name":"Base station","score":0.5475422739982605},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/channel-state-information","display_name":"Channel state information","score":0.5134976506233215},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/transmission","display_name":"Transmission (telecommunications)","score":0.4821731448173523},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/zero-forcing-precoding","display_name":"Zero-forcing precoding","score":0.47449493408203125},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/single-antenna-interference-cancellation","display_name":"Single antenna interference cancellation","score":0.4675874710083008},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/co-channel-interference","display_name":"Co-channel interference","score":0.41510283946990967},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/radio-resource-management","display_name":"Radio resource management","score":0.4104154109954834},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/channel","display_name":"Channel (broadcasting)","score":0.4063824415206909},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-network","display_name":"Computer network","score":0.40463772416114807},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/electronic-engineering","display_name":"Electronic engineering","score":0.3997063934803009},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mimo","display_name":"MIMO","score":0.3428553342819214},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/topology","display_name":"Topology (electrical circuits)","score":0.3418616056442261},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/telecommunications","display_name":"Telecommunications","score":0.2523541748523712},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/wireless-network","display_name":"Wireless network","score":0.219635009765625},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/engineering","display_name":"Engineering","score":0.21351295709609985},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/wireless","display_name":"Wireless","score":0.15641242265701294},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/precoding","display_name":"Precoding","score":0.11359426379203796},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/electrical-engineering","display_name":"Electrical engineering","score":0.1071726381778717}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C32022120","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q797225","display_name":"Interference (communication)","level":3,"score":0.7438329458236694},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.6524901390075684},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138660444","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5607897","display_name":"Telecommunications link","level":2,"score":0.6017245054244995},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C153646914","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q535695","display_name":"Cellular network","level":2,"score":0.5785044431686401},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C68649174","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1379116","display_name":"Base station","level":2,"score":0.5475422739982605},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C148063708","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5072511","display_name":"Channel state information","level":3,"score":0.5134976506233215},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C761482","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118093","display_name":"Transmission (telecommunications)","level":2,"score":0.4821731448173523},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C155437304","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8069444","display_name":"Zero-forcing precoding","level":5,"score":0.47449493408203125},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C83204339","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7523915","display_name":"Single antenna interference cancellation","level":3,"score":0.4675874710083008},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C6532628","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5137431","display_name":"Co-channel interference","level":4,"score":0.41510283946990967},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C182448111","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7281197","display_name":"Radio resource management","level":4,"score":0.4104154109954834},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127162648","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16858953","display_name":"Channel (broadcasting)","level":2,"score":0.4063824415206909},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C31258907","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1301371","display_name":"Computer network","level":1,"score":0.40463772416114807},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C24326235","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126095","display_name":"Electronic engineering","level":1,"score":0.3997063934803009},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C207987634","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176862","display_name":"MIMO","level":3,"score":0.3428553342819214},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C184720557","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7825049","display_name":"Topology (electrical circuits)","level":2,"score":0.3418616056442261},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C76155785","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q418","display_name":"Telecommunications","level":1,"score":0.2523541748523712},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C108037233","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11375","display_name":"Wireless network","level":3,"score":0.219635009765625},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.21351295709609985},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C555944384","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q249","display_name":"Wireless","level":2,"score":0.15641242265701294},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C160562895","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7239557","display_name":"Precoding","level":4,"score":0.11359426379203796},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C119599485","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43035","display_name":"Electrical engineering","level":1,"score":0.1071726381778717}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":3,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/tcomm.2015.2402121","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tcomm.2015.2402121","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S196647941","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Communications","issn_l":"0090-6778","issn":["0090-6778","1558-0857"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316002","host_organization_name":"IEEE Communications Society","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316002","https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["IEEE Communications Society","Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Communications","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.746.8258","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.746.8258","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.4395.pdf","raw_type":"text"},{"id":"pmh:oai:repository.hkust.edu.hk:1783.1-67342","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://repository.hkust.edu.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-67342","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401796","display_name":"Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","host_organization_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G7608988406","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"CCF 1216407","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","funder_display_name":"National Science Foundation"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","display_name":"National Science Foundation","ror":"https://ror.org/021nxhr62"}],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":49,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W631335369","https://openalex.org/W1871594675","https://openalex.org/W1938738734","https://openalex.org/W1963737897","https://openalex.org/W1972154735","https://openalex.org/W2005108639","https://openalex.org/W2015164001","https://openalex.org/W2016006359","https://openalex.org/W2022800466","https://openalex.org/W2039688938","https://openalex.org/W2051254054","https://openalex.org/W2056916045","https://openalex.org/W2058354033","https://openalex.org/W2058477717","https://openalex.org/W2074120933","https://openalex.org/W2081450055","https://openalex.org/W2092923645","https://openalex.org/W2093763487","https://openalex.org/W2094629654","https://openalex.org/W2102413189","https://openalex.org/W2102473388","https://openalex.org/W2106612364","https://openalex.org/W2108662631","https://openalex.org/W2109830484","https://openalex.org/W2113271807","https://openalex.org/W2116896318","https://openalex.org/W2121308898","https://openalex.org/W2131070905","https://openalex.org/W2132475944","https://openalex.org/W2132485616","https://openalex.org/W2133685514","https://openalex.org/W2134150067","https://openalex.org/W2142989636","https://openalex.org/W2149170915","https://openalex.org/W2150166076","https://openalex.org/W2154782861","https://openalex.org/W2154813399","https://openalex.org/W2155174176","https://openalex.org/W2163676306","https://openalex.org/W2167353407","https://openalex.org/W3099509308","https://openalex.org/W3101358233","https://openalex.org/W3105072513","https://openalex.org/W4289857278","https://openalex.org/W6639151352","https://openalex.org/W6654293940","https://openalex.org/W6676181199","https://openalex.org/W6679968120","https://openalex.org/W6682731105"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2076234844","https://openalex.org/W1991457479","https://openalex.org/W2117519826","https://openalex.org/W1976511355","https://openalex.org/W4299611506","https://openalex.org/W2315573952","https://openalex.org/W2014871862","https://openalex.org/W2949213941","https://openalex.org/W2083202929","https://openalex.org/W1965847020"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Small":[0],"cell":[1,68],"networks":[2],"are":[3],"regarded":[4],"as":[5],"a":[6,22,54,135,239],"promising":[7],"candidate":[8],"to":[9,80,127,150,158,218],"meet":[10],"the":[11,74,85,98,105,109,113,117,146,151,160,168,171,181,187,195,204,228],"exponential":[12],"growth":[13],"of":[14,25,73,145,170,180,206,242],"mobile":[15],"data":[16],"traffic":[17],"in":[18],"cellular":[19],"networks.":[20,69],"With":[21],"dense":[23],"deployment":[24],"access":[26],"points,":[27],"spatial":[28,137],"reuse":[29],"will":[30],"be":[31,37,44,219],"improved,":[32],"and":[33,83,112,122,173],"uniform":[34],"coverage":[35],"can":[36],"provided.":[38],"However,":[39],"such":[40],"performance":[41,176,235],"gains":[42,177,236],"cannot":[43],"achieved":[45],"without":[46],"effective":[47],"intercell":[48,61],"interference":[49,56,62,87,118,124,131,200],"management.":[50],"In":[51],"this":[52],"paper,":[53],"novel":[55],"coordination":[57,183,230],"strategy,":[58,184],"called":[59,116],"user-centric":[60],"nulling,":[63],"is":[64,77,155,192,212,216,225],"proposed":[65,75,182,196,229],"for":[66,88],"small":[67],"A":[70],"main":[71],"merit":[72],"strategy":[76,197,231],"its":[78],"ability":[79],"effectively":[81],"identify":[82],"mitigate":[84],"dominant":[86],"each":[89,95,128],"user.":[90],"Different":[91],"from":[92],"existing":[93],"works,":[94],"user":[96],"selects":[97],"coordinating":[99],"base":[100],"stations":[101],"(BSs)":[102],"based":[103],"on":[104],"relative":[106],"distance":[107],"between":[108],"home":[110],"BS":[111],"interfering":[114],"BSs,":[115],"nulling":[119,125,201],"(IN)":[120],"range,":[121],"thus":[123],"adapts":[126],"user's":[129],"own":[130],"situation.":[132],"By":[133],"adopting":[134],"random":[136],"network":[138],"model,":[139],"we":[140],"derive":[141],"an":[142],"approximate":[143],"expression":[144],"successful":[147],"transmission":[148],"probability":[149],"typical":[152],"user,":[153],"which":[154],"then":[156],"used":[157],"determine":[159],"optimal":[161],"IN":[162],"range.":[163],"Simulation":[164],"results":[165],"shall":[166],"confirm":[167],"tightness":[169],"approximation,":[172],"demonstrate":[174],"significant":[175,234],"(about":[178],"35-40%)":[179],"compared":[185],"with":[186,238],"non-coordination":[188],"case.":[189],"Moreover,":[190],"it":[191],"shown":[193,226],"that":[194,227],"outperforms":[198],"other":[199],"methods.":[202],"Finally,":[203],"effect":[205],"imperfect":[207],"channel":[208],"state":[209],"information":[210],"(CSI)":[211],"investigated,":[213],"where":[214],"CSI":[215],"assumed":[217],"obtained":[220],"via":[221],"limited":[222],"feedback.":[223],"It":[224],"still":[232],"provides":[233],"even":[237],"moderate":[240],"number":[241],"feedback":[243],"bits.":[244]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":8},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":12},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":24},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":27},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":18},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":12}],"updated_date":"2026-07-15T18:14:33.161393","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}