Two-Hop Interference Channels: Impact of Linear Time-Varying Schemes
Information Theory
2013-05-20 v1 math.IT
Abstract
We consider the two-hop interference channel (IC) with constant real channel coefficients, which consists of two source-destination pairs, separated by two relays. We analyze the achievable degrees of freedom (DoF) of such network when relays are restricted to perform scalar amplify-forward (AF) operations, with possibly time-varying coefficients. We show that, somewhat surprisingly, by providing the flexibility of choosing time-varying AF coefficients at the relays, it is possible to achieve 4/3 sum-DoF. We also develop a novel outer bound that matches our achievability, hence characterizing the sum-DoF of two-hop interference channels with time-varying AF relaying strategies.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1305.3969,
title = {Two-Hop Interference Channels: Impact of Linear Time-Varying Schemes},
author = {Ibrahim Issa and Silas L. Fong and A. Salman Avestimehr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3969},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
To appear in Proc. of ISIT 2013 (proof of lemma added)