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Interference Mitigation Through Limited Receiver Cooperation: Symmetric Case
Interference is a major issue that limits the performance in wireless
networks, and cooperation among receivers can help mitigate interference by
forming distributed MIMO systems. The rate at which receivers cooperate,
however, is limited in most scenarios. How much interference can one bit of
receiver cooperation mitigate? In this paper, we study the two-user Gaussian
interference channel with conferencing decoders to answer this question in a
simple setting. We characterize the fundamental gain from cooperation: at high
SNR, when INR is below 50% of SNR in dB scale, one-bit cooperation per
direction buys roughly one-bit gain per user until full receiver cooperation
performance is reached, while when INR is between 67% and 200% of SNR in dB
scale, one-bit cooperation per direction buys roughly half-bit gain per user.
The conclusion is drawn based on the approximate characterization of the
symmetric capacity in the symmetric set-up. We propose strategies achieving the
symmetric capacity universally to within 3 bits. The strategy consists of two
parts: (1) the transmission scheme, where superposition encoding with a simple
power split is employed, and (2) the cooperative protocol, where
quantize-binning is used for relaying.Comment: To appear in IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Taormina, October
2009. Final versio
The Approximate Capacity Region of the Gaussian Z-Interference Channel with Conferencing Encoders
A two-user Gaussian Z-Interference Channel (GZIC) is considered, in which
encoders are connected through noiseless links with finite capacities. In this
setting, prior to each transmission block the encoders communicate with each
other over the cooperative links. The capacity region and the sum-capacity of
the channel are characterized within 1.71 bits per user and 2 bits in total,
respectively. It is also established that properly sharing the total limited
cooperation capacity between the cooperative links may enhance the achievable
region, even when compared to the case of unidirectional transmitter
cooperation with infinite cooperation capacity. To obtain the results,
genie-aided upper bounds on the sum-capacity and cut-set bounds on the
individual rates are compared with the achievable rate region. In the
interference-limited regime, the achievable scheme enjoys a simple type of
Han-Kobayashi signaling, together with the zero-forcing, and basic relaying
techniques. In the noise-limited regime, it is shown that treating interference
as noise achieves the capacity region up to a single bit per user.Comment: 25 pages, 6 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information
Theor
Capacity Theorems for the Fading Interference Channel with a Relay and Feedback Links
Handling interference is one of the main challenges in the design of wireless
networks. One of the key approaches to interference management is node
cooperation, which can be classified into two main types: relaying and
feedback. In this work we consider simultaneous application of both cooperation
types in the presence of interference. We obtain exact characterization of the
capacity regions for Rayleigh fading and phase fading interference channels
with a relay and with feedback links, in the strong and very strong
interference regimes. Four feedback configurations are considered: (1) feedback
from both receivers to the relay, (2) feedback from each receiver to the relay
and to one of the transmitters (either corresponding or opposite), (3) feedback
from one of the receivers to the relay, (4) feedback from one of the receivers
to the relay and to one of the transmitters. Our results show that there is a
strong motivation for incorporating relaying and feedback into wireless
networks.Comment: Accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
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