Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2010-10-13
Computer Science
Information Theory
accepted, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Scientific paper
Interference alignment (IA) is a multiplexing gain optimal transmission strategy for the interference channel. While the achieved sum rate with IA is much higher than previously thought possible, the improvement often comes at the cost of requiring network channel state information at the transmitters. This can be achieved by explicit feedback, a flexible yet potentially costly approach that incurs large overhead. In this paper we propose analog feedback as an alternative to limited feedback or reciprocity based alignment. We show that the full multiplexing gain observed with perfect channel knowledge is preserved by analog feedback and that the mean loss in sum rate is bounded by a constant when signal-to-noise ratio is comparable in both forward and feedback channels. When signal-to-noise ratios are not quite symmetric, a fraction of the multiplexing gain is achieved. We consider the overhead of training and feedback and use this framework to optimize the system's effective throughput. We present simulation results to demonstrate the performance of IA with analog feedback, verify our theoretical analysis, and extend our conclusions on optimal training and feedback length.
Ayach Omar El
Heath Robert W. Jr.
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