The DoF Region of Order-(K-1) Messages for the K-user MIMO Broadcast Channel with Delayed CSIT

This paper theoretically characterizes the degrees-of-freedom (DoF) region of order-$(K-1)$ messages for the $K$-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel with delayed channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) and arbitrary antenna configurations, where the transmitter has $M$ antennas and the receiver $i=1,2,\cdots,K$ has $N_i$ antennas. For the converse, we first derive the DoF region of order-$(K-1)$ messages for the $K$-user MIMO broadcast channel with no CSIT and arbitrary antenna configurations with the aid of the proposed Genie-bound, and then establish the DoF outer region. For the achievability, we first design a 2-phase transmission scheme, and then propose a backward/forward cancellation algorithm for decoding. Specifically, we efficiently derive the achievable DoF region from the designed transmission scheme by transformation approach. The main implication of this paper is that for the order-$(K-1)$ messages of $K$-user MIMO broadcast channel, the DoF region with delayed CSIT is larger than the DoF region with no CSIT when $N_2<M$, where $N_1 \le N_2 \le \cdots \le N_K$.Comment: Accpeted by IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, 202

Secure Degrees-of-Freedom of the MIMO X Channel with Delayed CSIT

In this paper, we study the secure degrees-of-freedom (SDoF) characterization for the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) X channel with confidential messages and delayed CSIT. In particular, we propose a transmission scheme, which can be regarded as a generalization of the state-of-the-art scheme without security and with delayed CSIT. The key of this generalization is performing the security analysis, by which we derive the optimal duration of the artificial noise transmission phase. As a result, we drive the sum-SDoF lower bound. Furthermore, we reveal that if the number of receive antennas, denoted by N, is fixed, the number of transmit antennas for the maximal sum-SDoF lower bound achieved by our scheme saturates at (7+\sqrt{33})N/8.Comment: Submitted to IEE