  This paper considers base station cooperation (BSC) strategies for the uplink
of a multi-user multi-cell high frequency reuse scenario where distributed
iterative detection (DID) schemes with soft/hard interference cancellation
algorithms are studied. The conventional distributed detection scheme exchanges
{soft symbol estimates} with all cooperating BSs. Since a large amount of
information needs to be shared via the backhaul, the exchange of hard bit
information is preferred, however a performance degradation is experienced. In
this paper, we consider a reduced message passing (RMP) technique in which each
BS generates a detection list with the probabilities for the desired symbol
that are sorted according to the calculated probability. The network then
selects the best {detection candidates} from the lists and conveys the index of
the constellation symbols (instead of double-precision values) among the
cooperating cells. The proposed DID-RMP achieves an inter-cell-interference
(ICI) suppression with low backhaul traffic overhead compared with {the
conventional soft bit exchange} and outperforms the previously reported
hard/soft information exchange algorithms.
