Interference mitigation using transmitter filters in CDMA systems

We consider the use of transmitter filters as pre-equalizers at the base station to mitigate the interference in code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems over a multipath fading channel. It is shown that the interference at the receiver of the mobile station can be mitigated by the transmitter filters and, thereby, the capacity of downlink channel can be improved. The minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming technique in antenna arrays has been utilized to find the coefficients of interference mitigation (IM) transmitter filters. To design IM transmitter filters, we assume that the channel information is available. This can be true in time-division duplexing (TDD) mode because of the channel reciprocity. In frequency-division duplexing mode, the downlink channel impulse responses (CIRs) shall be be transmitted to the base station. To transmit the CIRs, we consider an encoding method. In addition, to compensate inherent feedback delay, the channel prediction is also utilized.