  Inter-cell interference (ICI) is one of the major performance-limiting
factors in the context of modern cellular systems. To tackle ICI, coordinated
multi-point (CoMP) schemes have been proposed as a key technology for
next-generation mobile communication systems. Although CoMP schemes offer
promising theoretical gains, their performance could degrade significantly
because of practical issues such as limited backhaul. To address this issue, we
explore a novel uplink interference management scheme called anywhere decoding,
which requires exchanging just a few bits of information per coding interval
among the base stations (BSs). In spite of the low overhead of anywhere
decoding, we observe considerable gains in the outage probability performance
of cell-edge users, compared to no cooperation between BSs. Additionally,
asymptotic results of the outage probability for high-SNR regimes demonstrate
that anywhere decoding schemes achieve full spatial diversity through multiple
decoding opportunities, and they are within 1.5 dB of full cooperation.
