Insufficiency of Linear-Feedback Schemes in Gaussian Broadcast Channels With Common Message

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2329000zbMATH Open1360.94268arXiv1307.5549OpenAlexW2012814464MaRDI QIDQ2986205FDOQ2986205

Youlong Wu, Paolo Minero, Michèle Angela Wigger

Publication date: 16 May 2017

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

Abstract: We consider the $Kgeq2$-user memoryless Gaussian broadcast channel (BC) with feedback and common message only. We show that linear-feedback schemes with a message point, in the spirit of Schalkwijk & Kailath's scheme for point-to-point channels or Ozarow & Leung's scheme for BCs with private messages, are strictly suboptimal for this setup. Even with perfect feedback, the largest rate achieved by these schemes is strictly smaller than capacity $C$ (which is the same with and without feedback). In the extreme case where the number of receivers $Koinfty$, the largest rate achieved by linear-feedback schemes with a message point tends to 0. To contrast this negative result, we describe a scheme for emph{rate-limited} feedback that uses the feedback in an intermittent way, i.e., the receivers send feedback signals only in few channel uses. This scheme achieves all rates $R$ up to capacity $C$ with an $L$-th order exponential decay of the probability of error if the feedback rate $R_{extnormalfb}$ is at least $(L-1)R$ for some positive integer $L$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5549

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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