In these interference suppression schemes, UEs are expected to apply interference reduction algorithms to remove ICI.
In practice, the UE must estimate the channel corruption based on its received signal. The UE is never given a “golden” or error-free starting point from which it is to deduce channel corruption. Therefore, estimation errors commonly occur during initial estimates of the CIR, and are propagated throughout subsequent calculations. If the UE has misestimated the level or type of interference, then the suppression stage 304 may not reduce the overall interference level. Furthermore, with large enough estimation errors, the suppression stage may actually degrade performance. Thus, an ideal solution would minimize potentially fallible estimation techniques to reduce interference.