On the Degrees-of-Freedom of the K-User Distributed Broadcast Channel

DOI10.1109/TIT.2020.2993958zbMATH Open1448.94047arXiv1601.07399OpenAlexW3099135889MaRDI QIDQ5124530FDOQ5124530

David Gesbert, Nicolas Gresset, Antonio Bazco-Nogueras, Paul de Kerret

Publication date: 29 September 2020

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

Abstract: We study the Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) in a wireless setting in which K Transmitters (TXs) aim at jointly serving K users. The performance is studied when the TXs are faced with a distributed Channel State Information (CSI) configuration in which each TX has access to its own multi-user imperfect channel estimate based on which it designs its transmit coefficients. The channel estimates are not only imperfectly acquired but they are also imperfectly shared between the TXs. Our first contribution consists of computing a genie-aided upper bound for the DoF of that setting. Our main contribution is then to develop a new robust transmission scheme that leverages the different qualities of CSI available at the TXs to improve the achieved DoF. We show the surprising result that there is a CSI regime, coined the Weak-CSIT regime, in which the genie-aided upper bound is achieved by the proposed transmission scheme. Interestingly, the optimal DoF in the Weak-CSIT regime only depends on the CSI quality at the best informed TX and not on the CSI quality at all other TXs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07399

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Communication theory (94A05) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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