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Fundamental Limits in Correlated Fading MIMO Broadcast Channels: Benefits of Transmit Correlation Diversity
We investigate asymptotic capacity limits of the Gaussian MIMO broadcast
channel (BC) with spatially correlated fading to understand when and how much
transmit correlation helps the capacity. By imposing a structure on channel
covariances (equivalently, transmit correlations at the transmitter side) of
users, also referred to as \emph{transmit correlation diversity}, the impact of
transmit correlation on the power gain of MIMO BCs is characterized in several
regimes of system parameters, with a particular interest in the large-scale
array (or massive MIMO) regime. Taking the cost for downlink training into
account, we provide asymptotic capacity bounds of multiuser MIMO downlink
systems to see how transmit correlation diversity affects the system
multiplexing gain. We make use of the notion of joint spatial division and
multiplexing (JSDM) to derive the capacity bounds. It is advocated in this
paper that transmit correlation diversity may be of use to significantly
increase multiplexing gain as well as power gain in multiuser MIMO systems. In
particular, the new type of diversity in wireless communications is shown to
improve the system multiplexing gain up to by a factor of the number of degrees
of such diversity. Finally, performance limits of conventional large-scale MIMO
systems not exploiting transmit correlation are also characterized.Comment: 29 pages, 8 figure
Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling for MIMO Ad-Hoc Networks
Distributed opportunistic scheduling (DOS) protocols are proposed for
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ad-hoc networks with contention-based
medium access. The proposed scheduling protocols distinguish themselves from
other existing works by their explicit design for system throughput improvement
through exploiting spatial multiplexing and diversity in a {\em distributed}
manner. As a result, multiple links can be scheduled to simultaneously transmit
over the spatial channels formed by transmit/receiver antennas. Taking into
account the tradeoff between feedback requirements and system throughput, we
propose and compare protocols with different levels of feedback information.
Furthermore, in contrast to the conventional random access protocols that
ignore the physical channel conditions of contending links, the proposed
protocols implement a pure threshold policy derived from optimal stopping
theory, i.e. only links with threshold-exceeding channel conditions are allowed
for data transmission. Simulation results confirm that the proposed protocols
can achieve impressive throughput performance by exploiting spatial
multiplexing and diversity.Comment: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on
Communications, Beijing, May 19-23, 200
Space-Time Encoded MISO Broadcast Channel with Outdated CSIT: An Error Rate and Diversity Performance Analysis
Studies of the MISO Broadcast Channel (BC) with delayed Channel State
Information at the Transmitter (CSIT) have so far focused on the sum-rate and
Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) region analysis. In this paper, we investigate for the
first time the error rate performance at finite SNR and the
diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) at infinite SNR of a space-time encoded
transmission over a two-user MISO BC with delayed CSIT. We consider the
so-called MAT protocol obtained by Maddah-Ali and Tse, which was shown to
provide 33% DoF enhancement over TDMA. While the asymptotic DMT analysis shows
that MAT is always preferable to TDMA, the Pairwise Error Probability analysis
at finite SNR shows that MAT is in fact not always a better alternative to
TDMA. Benefits can be obtained over TDMA only at very high rate or once
concatenated with a full-rate full-diversity space-time code. The analysis is
also extended to spatially correlated channels and the influence of transmit
correlation matrices and user pairing strategies on the performance are
discussed. Relying on statistical CSIT, signal constellations are further
optimized to improve the error rate performance of MAT and make it insensitive
to user orthogonality. Finally, other transmission strategies relying on
delayed CSIT are discussed
Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the Symmetric Cache-Aided MISO Broadcast Channel with Partial CSIT
We consider the cache-aided MISO broadcast channel (BC) in which a
multi-antenna transmitter serves single-antenna receivers, each equipped
with a cache memory. The transmitter has access to partial knowledge of the
channel state information. For a symmetric setting, in terms of channel
strength levels, partial channel knowledge levels and cache sizes, we
characterize the generalized degrees of freedom (GDoF) up to a constant
multiplicative factor. The achievability scheme exploits the interplay between
spatial multiplexing gains and coded-multicasting gain. On the other hand, a
cut-set-based argument in conjunction with a GDoF outer bound for a parallel
MISO BC under channel uncertainty are used for the converse. We further show
that the characterized order-optimal GDoF is also attained in a decentralized
setting, where no coordination is required for content placement in the caches.Comment: first revisio
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Information Theoretic Limits of MIMO Interference and Relay Networks
In this thesis, the information theoretic performance limits of two important building blocks of the general multi-user wireless network, namely, the interference channel and the relay channel, are characterized. We consider both time-invariant and time-varying or fading channel. In the first part, we focus on the 2-user interference channel with time-invariant channel coefficients. First, we characterize the capacity region of a class of MIMO IC called strong in partial order ICs. It turns out that for this class of channels decoding both the messages at both the receivers is optimal, i.e., the capacity region is identical to that of the compound multiple access channel (MAC). The defining constraints on the channel coefficients for the class of strong in partial order ICs enable us to derive a novel tight upper bound to the sum rate of the channel --- a problem that is very difficult for general channel coefficients. To avoid this difficulty for the general IC, we next derive upper and lower bounds which are not identical but are within a constant number of bits to each other which characterizes the capacity region of the 2-user multi-input multi-output (MIMO) Gaussian interference channel (IC) with an arbitrary number of antennas at each node to within a constant gap that is independent of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and all channel parameters. In contrast to an earlier result in [Telatar and Tse, ISIT, 2007], where both the achievable rate region and upper bounds to the capacity region of a general class of interference channels was specified as the union over all possible input distributions here we provide, a simple and an explicit achievable coding scheme for the achievable region and an explicit outer bound. We also illustrate an interesting connection of the simple achievable coding scheme to MMSE estimators at the receivers. A reciprocity result is also proved which is that the capacity of the reciprocal MIMO IC is within a constant gap of the capacity region of the forward MIMO IC.
We also analyze the channel\u27s performance in the high SNR regime, which is obtained from the explicit expressions of the approximate capacity region and the resulting asymptotic rate region is known as the generalized degrees of freedom (GDoF) region. A close examination of the super position coding scheme which is both GDoF and approximate capacity optimal reveals that joint signal-space and signal-level interference alignment is necessary to achieve the GDoF region of the channel. The admissible DoF-splits between the private and common messages of the HK scheme are also specified. A study of the GDoF region reveals various insights through the joint dependence of optimal interference management techniques (at high SNR) on the SNR exponents and the numbers of antennas at the four terminals. For instance, it reveals that, unlike in the scalar IC, treating interference as noise is not always GDoF-optimal even in the very weak interference regime. Moreover, while the DoF-optimal strategy that relies just on transmit/receive zero-forcing beamforming and time-sharing is not GDoF optimal (and thus has an unbounded gap to capacity), the precise characterization of the very strong interference regime - where single-user DoF performance can be achieved simultaneously for both users- depends on the relative numbers of antennas at the four terminals and thus deviates from what it is in the SISO case. For asymmetric numbers of antennas at the four nodes the shape of the symmetric GDoF curve can be a \u22distorted W\u22 curve to the extent that for certain MIMO ICs it is a \u22V\u22 curve.
In the second part of the thesis, we concentrate on time varying fading channels. We first characterize the fundamental diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) of the quasi-static fading MIMO Z interference channel (ZIC) with channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT) and arbitrary number of antennas at each node. A short-term average power constraint is assumed. It is shown that a variant of the superposition coding scheme described above, where the 2nd transmitter\u27s signal depends on the channel matrix to the first receiver and the 1st user\u27s transmit signal is independent of CSIT, can achieve the full CSIT DMT of the ZIC. We also characterize the achievable DMT of a transmission scheme, which does not utilize any CSIT and show that for some range of multiplexing gains, the full CSIT DMT of the ZIC can be achieved by it. The size of this range of multiplexing gains depends on the system parameters such as the number of antennas at the four nodes (referred to hereafter as “antenna configuration”), signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) and interference-to-noise ratio (INR) of the direct links and cross link, respectively. Interestingly, for certain special cases such as when the interfered receiver has a relatively larger number of antennas than that at the other nodes or when the INR is stronger than the SNRs, the No-CSIT scheme can achieve the F-CSIT DMT for all multiplexing gains. Thus, under these circumstances, the optimal DMT of the MIMO ZIC with F-CSIT is same as the DMT of the corresponding ZIC with No-CSIT. For other channel configurations, the DMT achievable by the No-CSIT scheme serves as a lower bound to the fundamental No-CSIT DMT of the MIMO ZIC.
We also characterize the fundamental diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of the three-node, multi-input, multi-output (MIMO), quasi-static, Rayleigh faded, half-duplex relay channel for an arbitrary number of antennas at each node and in which opportunistic scheduling (or dynamic operation) of the relay is allowed, i.e., the relay can switch between receive and transmit modes at a channel dependent time. In this most general case, the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff is characterized as a solution to a simple, two-variable optimization problem. This problem is then solved in closed form for special classes of channels defined by certain restrictions on the numbers of antennas at the three nodes. The key mathematical tool developed here that enables the explicit characterization of the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff is the joint eigenvalue distribution of three mutually correlated random Wishart matrices. Besides being relevant here, this distribution result is interesting in its own right. Previously, without actually characterizing the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff, the optimality in this tradeoff metric of the dynamic compress-and-forward (DCF) protocol based on the classical compress-and-forward scheme of Cover and El Gamal was shown by Yuksel and Erkip. However, this scheme requires global channel state information (CSI) at the relay. In this work, the so-called quantize-map and forward (QMF) coding scheme is adopted as the achievability scheme with the added benefit that it achieves optimal tradeoff with only the knowledge of the (channel dependent) switching time at the relay node. Moreover, in special classes of the MIMO half-duplex relay channel, the optimal tradeoff is shown to be attainable even without this knowledge. Such a result was previously known only for the half-duplex relay channel with a single antenna at each node, also via the QMF scheme. More generally, the explicit characterization of the tradeoff curve in this work enables the in-depth comparisons herein of full-duplex versus half-duplex relaying as well as static versus dynamic relaying, both as a function of the numbers of antennas at the three nodes
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