The system for pilot tone scheduling previously described herein can be further improved with precoding compensation methods. As the BS 202 sending a signal to a given target UE 206 knows the transmit time and position of pilot signals that are going to be sent by other base stations, some of these pilot signals will interfere with the useful data to be decoded by the target UE. In order to keep the latency as low as possible, and minimally reduce the load on the links connecting adjoining base stations, a BS of the exemplary embodiment has no information about the user data to be sent in the future by other BSs. However, as pilot tones are easily represented and scheduled, they may be compensated to improve spectral efficiency.
As previously discussed, the BSs 202 may collaborate on scheduling pilot tones, CIRs 208 of all radio channels from each BS to each UE 206, and timing synchronization. All these elements may be achieved using a suitable communication between the BS access networks.