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In this paper, we introduce an efficient interference alignment (IA) algorithm exploiting partially coordinated transmit precoding to improve the number of concurrent interference-free transmissions, i.e., the multiplexing gain, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-24 Aimal Khan Yousafzai , Mohammad Reza Nakhai

An interference management problem among multiple overlapped random access networks (RANs) is investigated, each of which operates with slotted ALOHA protocol. Assuming that access points and users have multiple antennas, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hu Jin , Sang-Woon Jeon , Bang Chul Jung

A limited feedback-based interference alignment (IA) scheme is proposed for the interfering multi-access channel (IMAC). By employing a novel performance-oriented quantization strategy, the proposed scheme is able to achieve the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Hui Gao , Tiejun Lv , Di Fang , Shaoshi Yang , Chau Yuen

This paper proposes a linear interference alignment (IA) scheme which can be used for uplink channels in a general multicell multiuser MIMO cellular network. The proposed scheme aims to align interference caused by signals from a set of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-22 Khanh Pham , Kyungchun Lee

Interference alignment (IA), given uncorrelated channel components and perfect channel state information, obtains the maximum degrees of freedom in an interference channel. Little is known, however, about how the sum rate of IA behaves at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Behrang Nosrat-Makouei , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath

Interference alignment (IA) is known to significantly increase sum-throughput at high SNR in the presence of multiple interfering nodes, however, the reliability of IA is little known, which is the subject of this paper. We study the error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-28 Baile Xie , Yang Li , Hlaing Minn , Aria Nosratinia

Interference Alignment (IA) is a transmission scheme which achieves 1/2 Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) per transmit-antenna per user. The constraints imposed on the scheme are based on the linear receiver since conventional IA assumes Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-12 B Hari Ram , K Giridhar

Interference alignment (IA) is a joint-transmission technique that achieves the capacity of the interference channel for high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Most prior work on IA is based on the impractical assumption that perfect and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Sungyoon Cho , Kaibin Huang , Dongku Kim , Vincent K. N. Lau , Hyukjin Chae , Hanbyul Seo , Byounghoon Kim

Interference alignment (IA) has recently emerged as a promising interference mitigation technique for interference networks. In this letter, we focus on the IA non-iterative transceiver design problem in a multiple-input-multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Chiao-En Chen

Interference alignment (IA) is a technique recently shown to achieve the maximum degrees of freedom (DoF) of $K$-user interference channel. In this paper, we focus on the precoder designs on manifolds for IA. By restricting the optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Chen Zhang , Huarui Yin , Guo Wei

We develop an interference alignment (IA) technique for a downlink cellular system. In the uplink, IA schemes need channel-state-information exchange across base-stations of different cells, but our downlink IA technique requires feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Changho Suh , Minnie Ho , David Tse

In this paper, we address the problem of interference alignment (IA) over MIMO interference channels with limited channel state information (CSI) feedback based on quantization codebooks. Due to limited feedback and hence imperfect IA,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Xiaoming Chen , Chau Yuen

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 is a transmission technique for exploiting all available degrees of freedom in the interference channel with an arbitrary number of users. Most prior work on interference alignment, however, neglects interference from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-05 Steven W. Peters , Robert W. Heath

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

This article re-examines the fundamental notion of interference in wireless networks by contrasting traditional approaches to new concepts that handle interference in a creative way. Specifically, we discuss the fundamental limits of the…

In contrast to its wired counterpart, wireless communication is highly susceptible to eavesdropping due to the broadcast nature of the wireless propagation medium. Recent works have proposed the use of interference to reduce eavesdropping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Liangzhong Ruan , Vincent K. N. Lau , Moe Z. Win

We study a new IA strategy which is referred to as "Partial Interference Cancelation-based Interference Alignment" (PIC-IA). Unlike the conventional IA strategy, PIC-IA does not strive to eliminate interference from all users. Instead, it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Lingxiang Li , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Xiongbin Rao , Liangzhong Ruan , Vincent K. N. Lau

We introduce an iterative solution to the problem of interference alignment (IA) over MIMO channels based on a message-passing formulation. We propose a parameterization of the messages that enables the computation of IA precoders by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Maxime Guillaud , Mohsen Rezaee , Gerald Matz