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Degrees of Freedom for the MIMO Multi-way Relay Channel
This paper investigates the degrees of freedom (DoF) of the L-cluster, K-user
MIMO multi-way relay channel, where users in each cluster wish to exchange
messages within the cluster, and they can only communicate through the relay. A
novel DoF upper bound is derived by providing users with carefully designed
genie information. Achievable DoF is identified using signal space alignment
and multiple-access transmission. For the two-cluster MIMO multi-way relay
channel with two users in each cluster, DoF is established for the general case
when users and the relay have arbitrary number of antennas, and it is shown
that the DoF upper bound can be achieved using signal space alignment or
multiple-access transmission, or a combination of both. The result is then
generalized to the three user case. For the L-cluster K-user MIMO multi-way
relay channel in the symmetric setting, conditions under which the DoF upper
bound can be achieved are established. In addition to being shown to be tight
in a variety of scenarios of interests of the multi-way relay channel, the
newly derived upperbound also establishes the optimality of several previously
established achievable DoF results for multiuser relay channels that are
special cases of the multi-way relay channel.Comment: submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
MIMO Multiway Relaying with Clustered Full Data Exchange: Signal Space Alignment and Degrees of Freedom
We investigate achievable degrees of freedom (DoF) for a multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) multiway relay channel (mRC) with clusters and
users per cluster. Each user is equipped with antennas and the relay with
antennas. We assume a new data exchange model, termed \emph{clustered full
data exchange}, i.e., each user in a cluster wants to learn the messages of all
the other users in the same cluster. Novel signal alignment techniques are
developed to systematically construct the beamforming matrices at the users and
the relay for efficient physical-layer network coding. Based on that, we derive
an achievable DoF of the MIMO mRC with an arbitrary network configuration of
and , as well as with an arbitrary antenna configuration of and .
We show that our proposed scheme achieves the DoF capacity when and .Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
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