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On Cooperative Multiple Access Channels with Delayed CSI at Transmitters
We consider a cooperative two-user multiaccess channel in which the
transmission is controlled by a random state. Both encoders transmit a common
message and, one of the encoders also transmits an individual message. We study
the capacity region of this communication model for different degrees of
availability of the states at the encoders, causally or strictly causally. In
the case in which the states are revealed causally to both encoders but not to
the decoder we find an explicit characterization of the capacity region in the
discrete memoryless case. In the case in which the states are revealed only
strictly causally to both encoders, we establish inner and outer bounds on the
capacity region. The outer bound is non-trivial, and has a relatively simple
form. It has the advantage of incorporating only one auxiliary random variable.
We then introduce a class of cooperative multiaccess channels with states known
strictly causally at both encoders for which the inner and outer bounds agree;
and so we characterize the capacity region for this class. In this class of
channels, the state can be obtained as a deterministic function of the channel
inputs and output. We also study the model in which the states are revealed,
strictly causally, in an asymmetric manner, to only one encoder. Throughout the
paper, we discuss a number of examples; and compute the capacity region of some
of these examples. The results shed more light on the utility of delayed
channel state information for increasing the capacity region of state-dependent
cooperative multiaccess channels; and tie with recent progress in this
framework.Comment: 54 pages. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. arXiv
admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1201.327