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In this paper, we explore the benefits, in the sense of total (sum rate) degrees of freedom (DOF), of cooperation and cognitive message sharing for a two-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian interference channel with $M_1$, $M_2$ antennas at transmitters and $N_1$, $N_2$ antennas at receivers. For the case of cooperation (including cooperation at transmitters only, at receivers only, and at transmitters as well as receivers), the DOF is $min {M_1+M_2, N_1+N_2, max(M_1, N_2)), max(M_2, N_1)}$, which is the same as the DOF of the channel without cooperation. For the case of cognitive message sharing, the DOF is $min {M_1+M_2, N_1+N_2, (1-1_{T2})((1-1_{R2}) max(M_1, N_2) + 1_{R2} (M_1+N_2)), (1-1_{T1})((1-1_{R1}) max(M_2, N_1) + 1_{R1} (M_2+N_1)) }$ where $1_{Ti} = 1$ $(0)$ when transmitter $i$ is (is not) a cognitive transmitter and $1_{Ri}$ is defined in the same fashion. Our results show that while both techniques may increase the sum rate capacity of the MIMO interference channel, only cognitive message sharing can increase the DOF. We also find that it may be more beneficial for a user to have a cognitive transmitter than to have a cognitive receiver.
The Maddah-Ali and Tse (MAT) scheme is a linear precoding strategy that exploits Interference Alignment and perfect, but delayed, channel state information at the transmitters (delayed CSIT), improving the degrees of freedom (DoF) that can be achieved for the broadcast channel (BC). Since its appearance, many works have extended the concept of Retrospective Interference Alignment (RIA) to other multi-user channel configurations. However, little is known about the broadcast channel with multiple cells, i.e. the interference broadcast channel (IBC). In this work, the DoF are studied for the $K$-user $C$-cell multiple-input single-output (MISO) IBC with delayed CSIT (with $K/C$ users per cell). We show that the straightforward application of the MAT scheme over the IBC fails because it requires all interference to be received from the same source. Hence, in this case not all the interference can be cancelled, thus blocking the decoding of the received messages. We call this phenomenon as textit{interference coupling}, forcing to use the MAT scheme by serving just one cell at a time. In this work, we propose an extension, namely the uncoupled MAT scheme (uMAT), exploiting multiple cells, uncoupling the interference, and achieving the best known DoF inner bound for almost all settings.
We characterize the generalized degrees of freedom of the $K$ user symmetric Gaussian interference channel where all desired links have the same signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and all undesired links carrying interference have the same interference-to-noise ratio, ${INR}={SNR}^alpha$. We find that the number of generalized degrees of freedom per user, $d(alpha)$, does not depend on the number of users, so that the characterization is identical to the 2 user interference channel with the exception of a singularity at $alpha=1$ where $d(1)=frac{1}{K}$. The achievable schemes use multilevel coding with a nested lattice structure that opens the possibility that the sum of interfering signals can be decoded at a receiver even though the messages carried by the interfering signals are not decodable.
We explore the capacity and generalized degrees of freedom of the two-user Gaussian X channel, i.e. a generalization of the 2 user interference channel where there is an independent message from each transmitter to each receiver. There are three main results in this paper. First, we characterize the sum capacity of the deterministic X channel model under a symmetric setting. Second, we characterize the generalized degrees of freedom of the Gaussian X channel under a similar symmetric model. Third, we extend the noisy interference capacity characterization previously obtained for the interference channel to the X channel. Specifically, we show that the X channel associated with noisy (very weak) interference channel has the same sum capacity as the noisy interference channel.
In this paper, degrees of freedom (DoF) is investigated for the $Mtimes N$ single input single output (SISO) X channel with alternating channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT). It is known that the sum DoF of 2-user SISO X channel with synergistic alternating CSIT is the same as the sum DoF of 2-user $(M=N=2)$ SISO X channel with perfect CSIT [8]. In this paper, such 2-user X channel schemes are extended to the general $Mtimes N$ X channel. It is shown that the proposed $Mtimes N$ X channel schemes with synergistic alternating CSIT achieve $2M/(M+1)$ sum DoF. This DoF with $M=N=K$ is strictly lager than the best known DoF for the $K$-user X channel with delayed CSIT.
In this paper we introduce the two-user asynchronous cognitive multiple access channel (ACMAC). This channel model includes two transmitters, an uninformed one, and an informed one which knows prior to the beginning of a transmission the message which the uninformed transmitter is about to send. We assume that the channel from the uninformed transmitter to the receiver suffers a fixed but unknown delay. We further introduce a modified model, referred to as the asynchronous codeword cognitive multiple access channel (ACC-MAC), which differs from the ACMAC in that the informed user knows the signal that is to be transmitted by the other user, rather than the message that it is about to transmit. We state inner and outer bounds on the ACMAC and the ACC-MAC capacity regions, and we specialize the results to the Gaussian case. Further, we characterize the capacity regions of these channels in terms of multi-letter expressions. Finally, we provide an example which instantiates the difference between message side-information and codeword side-information.