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Cellular systems that employ time division duplexing (TDD) transmission are good candidates for implementation of interference alignment (IA) in the downlink since channel reciprocity enables the estimation of the channel state by the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Mohsen Rezaee , Maxime Guillaud , Fredrik Lindqvist

Although interference alignment (IA) can theoretically achieve the optimal degrees of freedom (DoFs) in the $K$-user Gaussian interference channel, its direct application comes at the prohibitive cost of precoding over exponentially-many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Vasilis Ntranos , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we study the uplink of a cellular system using the linear deterministic approximation model, where there are two users transmitting to a receiver, mutually interfering with a third transmitter communicating with a second…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-04 J. Buehler , G. Wunder

Small cell networks are regarded as a promising candidate to meet the exponential growth of mobile data traffic in cellular networks. With a dense deployment of access points, spatial reuse will be improved, and uniform coverage can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Chang Li , Jun Zhang , Martin Haenggi , Khaled B. Letaief

The feasibility conditions of interference alignment (IA) are analyzed for reverse TDD systems, i.e., one cell operates as downlink (DL) but the other cell operates as uplink (UL). Under general multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Kiyeon Kim , Sang-Woon Jeon , Janghoon Yang , Dong Ku Kim

As a revolutionary wireless transmission strategy, interference alignment (IA) can improve the capacity of the cell-edge users. However, the acquisition of the global channel state information (CSI) for IA leads to unacceptable overhead in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Jianpeng Ma , Shun Zhang , Hongyan Li , Nan Zhao , Victor C. M. Leung

For a three-cell constant cellular interfering network, a new property of alignment is identified, i.e., interference alignment (IA) solution obtained in an user-cooperation scenario can also be applied in a non-cooperation environment. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-02 Yanjun Ma , Jiandong Li , Rui Chen , Qin Liu

In this paper, interference alignment (IA) is designed for secure multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems in the presence of an eavesdropper. The proposed IA technique designs the transmit precoding and receiving subspace matrices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-05 Tung T. Vu , Ha Hoang Kha , Trung Q. Duong , Nguyen-Son Vo

Linear processing in the spatial domain at the base stations (BSs) and at the users of MIMO cellular systems enables the control of both inter-cell and intra-cell interference. A number of iterative algorithms have been proposed that allow…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-25 Tariq Elkourdi , Osvaldo Simeone , Onur Sahin , Shlomo Shamai

Interference alignment (IA) is a revolutionary wireless transmission strategy that reduces the impact of interference. The idea of interference alignment is to coordinate multiple transmitters so that their mutual interference aligns at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Omar El Ayach , Steven W. Peters , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we propose two secure multiuser multiple-input multiple-output transmission approaches based on interference alignment (IA) in the presence of an eavesdropper. To deal with the information leakage to the eavesdropper as well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Kha Hoang Ha , Thanh Tung Vu , Trung Quang Duong , Nguyen-Son Vo

Interference alignment (IA) is a linear precoding strategy that can achieve optimal capacity scaling at high SNR in interference networks. However, most existing IA designs require full channel state information (CSI) at the transmitters,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Xiongbin Rao , Vincent K. N. Lau

Interference alignment (IA) is a multiplexing gain optimal transmission strategy for the interference channel. While the achieved sum rate with IA is much higher than previously thought possible, the improvement often comes at the cost of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Omar El Ayach , Robert W. Heath

Interference alignment promises that, in Gaussian interference channels, each link can support half of a degree of freedom (DoF) per pair of transmit-receive antennas. However, in general, this result requires to precode the data bearing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Vasilis Ntranos , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Giuseppe Caire

In this letter, we propose the interference cancellation through interference alignment at the downlink of cognitive cellular networks. Interference alignment helps the spatial resources to be shared among primary and secondary cells and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-25 May Moussa , Fotis Foukalas , Tamer Khattab

This letter advances the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique for cellular downlink co-channel interference mitigation, via exploiting the (limited) cooperation among base stations (BSs). Specifically, we consider a simplified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new retrospective interference alignment for two-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interfering multiple access channels (IMAC) with the delayed channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT). It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wonjae Shin , Yonghee Han , Jungwoo Lee , Namyoon Lee , Robert W. Heath

Sharing global channel information at base stations (BSs) is commonly assumed for downlink multi-cell precoding. In the context of massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems where each BS is equipped with a large number of antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Liangbin Li , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas Marzetta

In this contribution, we jointly investigate the benefits of caching and interference alignment (IA) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel under limited backhaul capacity. In particular, total average transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Matha Deghel , Ejder Baştuğ , Mohamad Assaad , Merouane Debbah

We consider the information-theoretic optimality of treating inter-cell interference as noise (multi-cell TIN) in downlink cellular networks. We focus on scenarios modeled by the Gaussian interfering broadcast channel (IBC), comprising $K$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hamdi Joudeh , Xinping Yi , Bruno Clerckx , Giuseppe Caire