On Feasibility of Interference Alignment in MIMO Interference Networks

DOI10.1109/TSP.2010.2050480MaRDI QIDQ4570517zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cenk M. Yetis, Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Ahmet Hamdi Kayran

Publication date 9 July 2018

Published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4507

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We explore the feasibility of interference alignment in signal vector space -- based only on beamforming -- for K-user MIMO interference channels. Our main contribution is to relate the feasibility issue to the problem of determining the solvability of a multivariate polynomial system, considered extensively in algebraic geometry. It is well known, e.g. from Bezout's theorem, that generic polynomial systems are solvable if and only if the number of equations does not exceed the number of variables. Following this intuition, we classify signal space interference alignment problems as either proper or improper based on the number of equations and variables. Rigorous connections between feasible and proper systems are made through Bernshtein's theorem for the case where each transmitter uses only one beamforming vector. The multi-beam case introduces dependencies among the coefficients of a polynomial system so that the system is no longer generic in the sense required by both theorems. In this case, we show that the connection between feasible and proper systems can be further strengthened (since the equivalency between feasible and proper systems does not always hold) by including standard information theoretic outer bounds in the feasibility analysis.

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