Coordinated multipoint transmission and reception based on multicarrier time division multiple access

Coordinated multipoint ( CoMP) transmission and reception is a technique to reduce intercell interference and increase the cell edge throughput. In order to get maximum CoMP gain the networks and terminals involved in CoMP communication should be robust against time and frequency offset due to asynchronism between terminals and base stations. However, the modulation techniques proposed in LTE-Advanced standard (SC-FDMA and OFDM A) are quite sensitive to frequency offset because of DFT/IDFT used in the modulation systems, which brings difficulties for commercial implementation of CoMP technique based on LTE-Advanced. To relax the synchronization requirement in CoMP system, in this paper we introduce a CoMP technique based on a new multicarrier modulation scheme-multicarrier time division multiple access (MC-TDMA). In comparison with SC-FDMA and OFDMA, the MC-TDMA modulation can significantly improve the CoMP performance in case of carrier frequency offset. Simulation shows that at 20% of carrier frequency offset the CoMP system with MC-TDMA modulation can also keep high performance, while the system with SC-FDMA and OFDMA is totally lost in work.