Achievable Rate Region of Quantized Broadcast and MAC Channels

Details Achievable Rate Region of Quantized Broadcast and MAC Channels Achievable Rate Region of Quantized Broadcast and MAC Channels

2011-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/1102.2768v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

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In this paper, we study the achievable rate region of Gaussian multiuser channels with the messages transmitted being from finite input alphabets and the outputs being {\em quantized at the receiver}. In particular, we focus on the achievable rate region of $i)$ Gaussian broadcast channel (GBC) and $ii)$ Gaussian multiple access channel (GMAC). First, we study the achievable rate region of two-user GBC when the messages to be transmitted to both the users take values from finite signal sets and the received signal is quantized at both the users. We refer to this channel as {\em quantized broadcast channel (QBC)}. We observe that the capacity region defined for a GBC does not carry over as such to QBC. We show that the optimal decoding scheme for GBC (i.e., high SNR user doing successive decoding and low SNR user decoding its message alone) is not optimal for QBC. We then propose an achievable rate region for QBC based on two different schemes. We present achievable rate region results for the case of uniform quantization at the receivers. Next, we investigate the achievable rate region of two-user GMAC with finite input alphabet and quantized receiver output. We refer to this channel as {\em quantized multiple access channel (QMAC)}. We derive expressions for the achievable rate region of a two-user QMAC. We show that, with finite input alphabet, the achievable rate region with the commonly used uniform receiver quantizer has a significant loss compared to the achievable rate region without receiver quantization. We propose a {\em non-uniform quantizer} which has a significantly larger rate region compared to what is achieved with a uniform quantizer in QMAC.

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