Signal processing techniques to enable concurrent communications in MIMO enabled networks

In this paper, we present two novel methods to enable concurrent communications in MIMO networks. First method enables an 802.11n MIMO-OFDM receiver to decode independent data streams from two independent 802.11n transmitters concurrently. It is implemented on real time 802.11n based MIMO-OFDM testbeds and the performance of the technique is examined through both simulation and field trials. Second method is a low overhead Concurrent Communications scheme based on Adaptive Interference Cancellation (CC-AIC), which does not require any explicit channel state information (CSI) between the nodes in the network.