Capacity Bounds for the K -User Gaussian Interference Channel

DOI10.1109/TIT.2017.2719698MaRDI QIDQ4566500zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Junyoung Nam

Publication date 27 June 2018

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03319

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: The capacity region of the $K$-user Gaussian interference channel (GIC) is a long-standing open problem and even capacity outer bounds are little known in general. A significant progress on degrees-of-freedom (DoF) analysis, a first-order capacity approximation, for the $K$-user GIC has provided new important insights into the problem of interest in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) limit. However, such capacity approximation has been observed to have some limitations in predicting the capacity at emph{finite} SNR. In this work, we develop a new upper-bounding technique that utilizes a new type of genie signal and applies emph{time sharing} to genie signals at $K$ receivers. Based on this technique, we derive new upper bounds on the sum capacity of the three-user GIC with constant, complex channel coefficients and then generalize to the $K$-user case to better understand sum-rate behavior at finite SNR. We also provide closed-form expressions of our upper bounds on the capacity of the $K$-user symmetric GIC easily computable for emph{any} $K$. From the perspectives of our results, some sum-rate behavior at finite SNR is in line with the insights given by the known DoF results, while some others are not. In particular, the well-known $K/2$ DoF achievable for almost all constant real channel coefficients turns out to be not embodied as a substantial performance gain over a certain range of the cross-channel coefficient in the $K$-user symmetric real case especially for emph{large} $K$. We further investigate the impact of phase offset between the direct-channel coefficient and the cross-channel coefficients on the sum-rate upper bound for the three-user emph{complex} GIC. As a consequence, we aim to provide new findings that could not be predicted by the prior works on DoF of GICs.

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