232 research outputs found
Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise: A Combinatorial Perspective
For single-antenna Gaussian interference channels, we re-formulate the
problem of determining the Generalized Degrees of Freedom (GDoF) region
achievable by treating interference as Gaussian noise (TIN) derived in [3] from
a combinatorial perspective. We show that the TIN power control problem can be
cast into an assignment problem, such that the globally optimal power
allocation variables can be obtained by well-known polynomial time algorithms.
Furthermore, the expression of the TIN-Achievable GDoF region (TINA region) can
be substantially simplified with the aid of maximum weighted matchings. We also
provide conditions under which the TINA region is a convex polytope that relax
those in [3]. For these new conditions, together with a channel connectivity
(i.e., interference topology) condition, we show TIN optimality for a new class
of interference networks that is not included, nor includes, the class found in
[3].
Building on the above insights, we consider the problem of joint link
scheduling and power control in wireless networks, which has been widely
studied as a basic physical layer mechanism for device-to-device (D2D)
communications. Inspired by the relaxed TIN channel strength condition as well
as the assignment-based power allocation, we propose a low-complexity
GDoF-based distributed link scheduling and power control mechanism (ITLinQ+)
that improves upon the ITLinQ scheme proposed in [4] and further improves over
the heuristic approach known as FlashLinQ. It is demonstrated by simulation
that ITLinQ+ provides significant average network throughput gains over both
ITLinQ and FlashLinQ, and yet still maintains the same level of implementation
complexity. More notably, the energy efficiency of the newly proposed ITLinQ+
is substantially larger than that of ITLinQ and FlashLinQ, which is desirable
for D2D networks formed by battery-powered devices.Comment: A short version has been presented at IEEE International Symposium on
Information Theory (ISIT 2015), Hong Kon
The DoF of Network MIMO with Backhaul Delays
We consider the problem of downlink precoding for Network (multi-cell) MIMO
networks where Transmitters (TXs) are provided with imperfect Channel State
Information (CSI). Specifically, each TX receives a delayed channel estimate
with the delay being specific to each channel component. This model is
particularly adapted to the scenarios where a user feeds back its CSI to its
serving base only as it is envisioned in future LTE networks. We analyze the
impact of the delay during the backhaul-based CSI exchange on the rate
performance achieved by Network MIMO. We highlight how delay can dramatically
degrade system performance if existing precoding methods are to be used. We
propose an alternative robust beamforming strategy which achieves the maximal
performance, in DoF sense. We verify by simulations that the theoretical DoF
improvement translates into a performance increase at finite Signal-to-Noise
Ratio (SNR) as well
On the Degrees of Freedom of time correlated MISO broadcast channel with delayed CSIT
We consider the time correlated MISO broadcast channel where the transmitter
has partial knowledge on the current channel state, in addition to delayed
channel state information (CSI). Rather than exploiting only the current CSI,
as the zero-forcing precoding, or only the delayed CSI, as the Maddah-Ali-Tse
(MAT) scheme, we propose a seamless strategy that takes advantage of both. The
achievable degrees of freedom of the proposed scheme is characterized in terms
of the quality of the current channel knowledge.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ISIT 2012, extended version with
detailed proof
Degrees of Freedom of Time Correlated MISO Broadcast Channel with Delayed CSIT
We consider the time correlated multiple-input single-output (MISO) broadcast
channel where the transmitter has imperfect knowledge on the current channel
state, in addition to delayed channel state information. By representing the
quality of the current channel state information as P^-{\alpha} for the
signal-to-noise ratio P and some constant {\alpha} \geq 0, we characterize the
optimal degree of freedom region for this more general two-user MISO broadcast
correlated channel. The essential ingredients of the proposed scheme lie in the
quantization and multicasting of the overheard interferences, while
broadcasting new private messages. Our proposed scheme smoothly bridges between
the scheme recently proposed by Maddah-Ali and Tse with no current state
information and a simple zero-forcing beamforming with perfect current state
information.Comment: revised and final version, to appear in IEEE transactions on
Information Theor
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