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On Precoding for Constant K-User MIMO Gaussian Interference Channel with Finite Constellation Inputs
This paper considers linear precoding for constant channel-coefficient
-User MIMO Gaussian Interference Channel (MIMO GIC) where each
transmitter- (Tx-), requires to send independent complex symbols
per channel use that take values from fixed finite constellations with uniform
distribution, to receiver- (Rx-) for . We define the
maximum rate achieved by Tx- using any linear precoder, when the
interference channel-coefficients are zero, as the signal to noise ratio (SNR)
tends to infinity to be the Constellation Constrained Saturation Capacity
(CCSC) for Tx-. We derive a high SNR approximation for the rate achieved by
Tx- when interference is treated as noise and this rate is given by the
mutual information between Tx- and Rx-, denoted as . A set of
necessary and sufficient conditions on the precoders under which
tends to CCSC for Tx- is derived. Interestingly, the precoders designed for
interference alignment (IA) satisfy these necessary and sufficient conditions.
Further, we propose gradient-ascent based algorithms to optimize the sum-rate
achieved by precoding with finite constellation inputs and treating
interference as noise. Simulation study using the proposed algorithms for a
3-user MIMO GIC with two antennas at each node with for all , and
with BPSK and QPSK inputs, show more than 0.1 bits/sec/Hz gain in the ergodic
sum-rate over that yielded by precoders obtained from some known IA algorithms,
at moderate SNRs.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figure