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The considered problem is that of maximizing the degrees of freedom (DoF) in cellular downlink, under a backhaul load constraint that limits the number of messages that can be delivered from a centralized controller to the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Aly El Gamal , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

The degrees of freedom (DoF) available for communication provides an analytically tractable way to characterize the information-theoretic capacity of interference channels. In this paper, the DoF of a K-user interference channel is studied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Aly El Gamal , V. Sreekanth Annapureddy , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

In this paper, we propose an iterative interference alignment (IA) algorithm for MIMO cellular networks with partial connectivity, which is induced by heterogeneous path losses and spatial correlation. Such systems impose several key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Liangzhong Ruan , Vincent K. N. Lau

Interference alignment(IA) is mostly achieved by coding interference over multiple dimensions. Intuitively, the more interfering signals that need to be aligned, the larger the number of dimensions needed to align them. This dimensionality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Zainalabedin Samadi , Vahid Tabatabavakili , Farzan Haddadi

We investigate the Degrees of Freedom (DoF) Region of a cellular network, where the cells can have overlapping areas. Within an overlapping area, the mobile users can access multiple base stations. We consider a case where there are two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-02 Huarui Yin , Lei , Ke , Zhengdao Wang

For a K-user interference channel, the degree of freedom (DoF) which can be achieved through interference alignment (IA) is constrained to signal space dimension governed by the number of Tx/Rx antennas. To overcome this problem, IA can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Xin Qu , Chung G. Kang

Interference Alignment (IA) is technique that, in a large sense, makes use of the increasing signal dimensions available in the system through MIMO and OFDM technologies in order to globally reduce the interference suffered by users in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Yasser Fadlallah , Paul Ferrand , Leonardo Cardoso , Jean-Marie Gorce

Interference alignment (IA) is a widely recognized approach for mitigating inter-cell interference in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. Despite its effectiveness, practical deployment remains constrained by two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Samitha Gunarathne , Eslam Eldeeb , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Italo Atzeni

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

Machine learning (ML) has been widely used for efficient resource allocation (RA) in wireless networks. Although superb performance is achieved on small and simple networks, most existing ML-based approaches are confronted with difficulties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xiaochen Zhang , Haitao Zhao , Jun Xiong , Li Zhou , Jibo Wei

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

In this paper, we pioneer the study of physical-layer security in heterogeneous networks (HetNets). We investigate secure communications in a two-tier downlink HetNet, which comprises one macrocell and several femtocells. Each cell has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Tiejun Lv , Hui Gao , Shaoshi Yang

In this paper, we study the degrees of freedom (DoF) of the asymmetric multi-input-multi-output interference broadcast channel (MIMO-IBC). By introducing a notion of connection pattern chain, we generalize the genie chain proposed in [11]…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Tingting Liu , Chenyang Yang

Opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) exploits channel randomness and multiuser diversity by user selection. For OIA the transmitter needs channel state information (CSI), which is usually measured on the receiver side and sent to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Zhinan Xu , Mingming Gan , Thomas Zemen

In this paper, we first propose interference alignment (IA) scheme for uplink transmission of multiple-input-mulitple-output (MIMO) cellular network with a help of relay which operates in halfduplex mode. The proposed scheme only requires…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Hoyoun Kim , Jong-Seon No

We consider the problem of cache-aided interference management in a network consisting of $K_{\mathrm{T}}$ single-antenna transmitters and $K_{\mathrm{R}}$ single-antenna receivers, where each node is equipped with a cache memory.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Enrico Piovano , Hamdi Joudeh , Bruno Clerckx

We introduce an opportunistic interference mitigation (OIM) protocol, where a user scheduling strategy is utilized in $K$-cell uplink networks with time-invariant channel coefficients and base stations (BSs) having $M$ antennas. Each BS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Bang Chul Jung , Dohyung Park , Won-Yong Shin

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

We study multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) based downlink heterogeneous cellular network (HetNets) with joint transmit-receive diversity using orthogonal space-time block codes at the base stations (BSs) and maximal-ratio combining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Ralph Tanbourgi , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Friedrich K. Jondral

In heterogeneous cellular scenarios with macrocells, femtocells or picocells users may suffer from significant co-channel cross-tier interference. To manage this interference 3GPP introduced almost blank subframe (ABSF), a subframe in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Michal Cierny , Haining Wang , Risto Wichman , Zhi Ding , Carl Wijting