On the Degrees of Freedom Achievable Through Interference Alignment in a MIMO Interference Channel

DOI10.1109/TSP.2011.2173683zbMATH Open1393.94068arXiv1104.0992MaRDI QIDQ4573508FDOQ4573508

Authors: Meisam Razaviyayn, Gennady Lyubeznik, Zhi-Quan Luo 

Publication date: 18 July 2018

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

Abstract: Consider a K-user flat fading MIMO interference channel where the k-th transmitter (or receiver) is equipped with M_k (respectively N_k) antennas. If a large number of statistically independent channel extensions are allowed either across time or frequency, the recent work [1] suggests that the total achievable degrees of freedom (DoF) can be maximized via interference alignment, resulting in a total DoF that grows linearly with K even if M_k and N_k are bounded. In this work we consider the case where no channel extension is allowed, and establish a general condition that must be satisfied by any degrees of freedom tuple (d_1, d2, ..., d_K) achievable through linear interference alignment. For a symmetric system with M_k = M, N_k = N, d_k = d for all k, this condition implies that the total achievable DoF cannot grow linearly with K, and is in fact no more than K(M + N)=(K + 1). We also show that this bound is tight when the number of antennas at each transceiver is divisible by the number of data streams.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0992

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40) Foundations of algebraic geometry (14A99)

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