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Main Authors: Sun, Xuyang, Ammar, Hussein A., Bahceci, Israfil, Adve, Raviraj, Boudreau, Gary, Li, Zehua
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09989
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author Sun, Xuyang
Ammar, Hussein A.
Bahceci, Israfil
Adve, Raviraj
Boudreau, Gary
Li, Zehua
author_facet Sun, Xuyang
Ammar, Hussein A.
Bahceci, Israfil
Adve, Raviraj
Boudreau, Gary
Li, Zehua
contents With the rapid deployment of 5G systems, remote interference (RI) caused by atmospheric ducting has emerged as an occasional, but critical challenge. This phenomenon occurs when the downlink (DL) signals from distant base stations (BSs) propagate over long distances through tropospheric ducting, severely disrupting uplink (UL) reception at local BSs. To address this challenge, we analyze the effect of RI on network performance, including the channel estimation phase. We then develop a solution that identifies the angle-of-arrival (AOA) estimation of RI and designs precoders and combiners that mitigate RI. Our approach employs interference cancellation techniques through null precoding and fractional programming which enhance the performance of the network. Interestingly, we show that using our scheme, uplink communication is possible at low transmit power regimes that were unusable due to RI. Our results further show a 5.23~dB reduction in normalized mean square error for channel estimation and achieved data rates around 5.8~bit/s/Hz at the previously unusable low uplink transmit power conditions.
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spellingShingle Remote Interference Mitigation through Null Precoding and Fractional Programming
Sun, Xuyang
Ammar, Hussein A.
Bahceci, Israfil
Adve, Raviraj
Boudreau, Gary
Li, Zehua
Information Theory
With the rapid deployment of 5G systems, remote interference (RI) caused by atmospheric ducting has emerged as an occasional, but critical challenge. This phenomenon occurs when the downlink (DL) signals from distant base stations (BSs) propagate over long distances through tropospheric ducting, severely disrupting uplink (UL) reception at local BSs. To address this challenge, we analyze the effect of RI on network performance, including the channel estimation phase. We then develop a solution that identifies the angle-of-arrival (AOA) estimation of RI and designs precoders and combiners that mitigate RI. Our approach employs interference cancellation techniques through null precoding and fractional programming which enhance the performance of the network. Interestingly, we show that using our scheme, uplink communication is possible at low transmit power regimes that were unusable due to RI. Our results further show a 5.23~dB reduction in normalized mean square error for channel estimation and achieved data rates around 5.8~bit/s/Hz at the previously unusable low uplink transmit power conditions.
title Remote Interference Mitigation through Null Precoding and Fractional Programming
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09989