749 research outputs found
Downlink SDMA with Limited Feedback in Interference-Limited Wireless Networks
The tremendous capacity gains promised by space division multiple access
(SDMA) depend critically on the accuracy of the transmit channel state
information. In the broadcast channel, even without any network interference,
it is known that such gains collapse due to interstream interference if the
feedback is delayed or low rate. In this paper, we investigate SDMA in the
presence of interference from many other simultaneously active transmitters
distributed randomly over the network. In particular we consider zero-forcing
beamforming in a decentralized (ad hoc) network where each receiver provides
feedback to its respective transmitter. We derive closed-form expressions for
the outage probability, network throughput, transmission capacity, and average
achievable rate and go on to quantify the degradation in network performance
due to residual self-interference as a function of key system parameters. One
particular finding is that as in the classical broadcast channel, the per-user
feedback rate must increase linearly with the number of transmit antennas and
SINR (in dB) for the full multiplexing gains to be preserved with limited
feedback. We derive the throughput-maximizing number of streams, establishing
that single-stream transmission is optimal in most practically relevant
settings. In short, SDMA does not appear to be a prudent design choice for
interference-limited wireless networks.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
Principles of Physical Layer Security in Multiuser Wireless Networks: A Survey
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the domain of physical layer
security in multiuser wireless networks. The essential premise of
physical-layer security is to enable the exchange of confidential messages over
a wireless medium in the presence of unauthorized eavesdroppers without relying
on higher-layer encryption. This can be achieved primarily in two ways: without
the need for a secret key by intelligently designing transmit coding
strategies, or by exploiting the wireless communication medium to develop
secret keys over public channels. The survey begins with an overview of the
foundations dating back to the pioneering work of Shannon and Wyner on
information-theoretic security. We then describe the evolution of secure
transmission strategies from point-to-point channels to multiple-antenna
systems, followed by generalizations to multiuser broadcast, multiple-access,
interference, and relay networks. Secret-key generation and establishment
protocols based on physical layer mechanisms are subsequently covered.
Approaches for secrecy based on channel coding design are then examined, along
with a description of inter-disciplinary approaches based on game theory and
stochastic geometry. The associated problem of physical-layer message
authentication is also introduced briefly. The survey concludes with
observations on potential research directions in this area.Comment: 23 pages, 10 figures, 303 refs. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1303.1609 by other authors. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials,
201
On the Benefits of Partial Channel State Information for Repetition Protocols in Block Fading Channels
This paper studies the throughput performance of HARQ (hybrid automatic
repeat request) protocols over block fading Gaussian channels. It proposes new
protocols that use the available feedback bit(s) not only to request a
retransmission, but also to inform the transmitter about the instantaneous
channel quality. An explicit protocol construction is given for any number of
retransmissions and any number of feedback bits. The novel protocol is shown to
simultaneously realize the gains of HARQ and of power control with partial CSI
(channel state information). Remarkable throughput improvements are shown,
especially at low and moderate SNR (signal to noise ratio), with respect to
protocols that use the feedback bits for retransmission request only. In
particular, for the case of a single retransmission and a single feedback bit,
it is shown that the repetition is not needed at low \snr where the
throughput improvement is due to power control only. On the other hand, at high
SNR, the repetition is useful and the performance gain comes form a combination
of power control and ability of make up for deep fades.Comment: Accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Information Theory;
Presented in parts at ITW 2007 and ICC 200
Artificial-Noise-Aided Secure Multi-Antenna Transmission with Limited Feedback
We present an optimized secure multi-antenna transmission approach based on
artificial-noise-aided beamforming, with limited feedback from a desired
single-antenna receiver. To deal with beamformer quantization errors as well as
unknown eavesdropper channel characteristics, our approach is aimed at
maximizing throughput under dual performance constraints - a connection outage
constraint on the desired communication channel and a secrecy outage constraint
to guard against eavesdropping. We propose an adaptive transmission strategy
that judiciously selects the wiretap coding parameters, as well as the power
allocation between the artificial noise and the information signal. This
optimized solution reveals several important differences with respect to
solutions designed previously under the assumption of perfect feedback. We also
investigate the problem of how to most efficiently utilize the feedback bits.
The simulation results indicate that a good design strategy is to use
approximately 20% of these bits to quantize the channel gain information, with
the remainder to quantize the channel direction, and this allocation is largely
insensitive to the secrecy outage constraint imposed. In addition, we find that
8 feedback bits per transmit antenna is sufficient to achieve approximately 90%
of the throughput attainable with perfect feedback.Comment: to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
Opportunistic Relaying in Time Division Broadcast Protocol with Incremental Relaying
In this paper, we investigate the performance of time division broadcast protocol (TDBC) with incremental relaying (IR) when there are multiple available relays. Opportunistic relaying (OR), i.e., the “best” relay is select for transmission to minimize the system’s outage probability, is proposed. Two OR schemes are presented. The first scheme, termed TDBC-OIR-I, selects the “best” relay from the set of relays that can decode both flows of signal from the two sources successfully. The second one, termed TDBC-OIR-II, selects two “best” relays from two respective sets of relays that can decode successfully each flow of signal. The performance, in terms of outage probability, expected rate (ER), and diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT), of the two schemes are analyzed and compared with two TDBC schemes that have no IR but OR (termed TDBC-OR-I and TDBC-OR-II accordingly) and two other benchmark OR schemes that have no direct link transmission between the two sources
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