Interference mitigation in multiuser communication by faster than symbol rate sampling

Abstract The degrees of freedom (DoF) gain due to excess bandwidth is lost in case of Symbol Rate (SR) sampling where Faster than Symbol Rate (FTSR) sampling emerges as a promising approach to exploit this gain. In this direction, FTSR sampling is studied to increase the total number of users in a network for a given fixed bandwidth. The rank analysis indicates that FTSR sampling brings rank advantage proportional to the excess bandwidth for unequally spaced channel taps. With the help of an iterative FTSR sampled MMSE multiuser receiver, this rank advantage can be employed in the separation of two users’ signals from each other that transmit simultaneously on the same frequency band.