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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

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

It is known that interference alignment (IA) plays an important role in improving the degree of freedom (DoF) of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) systems. However, most of the traditional IA schemes suffer from the high computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Jingfu Li , Wenjiang Feng , F. Richard Yu , Weiheng Jiang

Multicell joint processing can mitigate inter-cell interference and thereby increase the spectral efficiency of cellular systems. Most previous work has assumed phase-aligned (coherent) transmissions from different base transceiver stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mingguang Xu , Dongning Guo , Michael L. Honig

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

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

Coordinated multi-point (CoMP) schemes have been widely studied in the recent years to tackle the inter-cell interference. In practice, latency and throughput constraints on the backhaul allow the organization of only small clusters of base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Paolo Baracca , Federico Boccardi , Nevio Benvenuto

Interference alignment (IA) is a promising technique to efficiently mitigate interference and to enhance the capacity of a wireless communication network. This paper proposes a grouping-based interference alignment (GIA) with optimized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Pan Cao , Alessio Zappone , Eduard A. Jorswieck

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

A base-station (BS) equipped with multiple antennas can use its spatial dimensions in three different ways: (1) to serve multiple users, thereby achieving a multiplexing gain, (2) to provide spatial diversity in order to improve user rates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Kianoush Hosseini , Caiyi Zhu , Ahmad Khan , Raviraj S. Adve , Wei Yu

An efficient interference alignment (IA) scheme is developed for $K$-user single-input single-output frequency selective fading interference channels. The main idea is to steer the transmit beamforming matrices such that at each receiver…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Sang Won Choi , Syed A. Jafar , Sae-Young Chung

In this paper, we present a novel method for a base station (BS) to estimate the total downlink interference power received by any given mobile receiver, without information feedback from the user or information exchange between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Siyi Wang , Weisi Guo , Mark D. McDonnell

In this paper, we investigate a multi-cell six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) network for enhancing downlink communication performance under inter-cell interference (ICI). Each base station (BS) is equipped with multiple 6DMA surfaces,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Qijun Jiang , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

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

This paper considers maximizing the network-wide minimum supported rate in the downlink of a two-cell system, where each base station (BS) is endowed with multiple antennas. This is done for different levels of cell cooperation. At one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Randa Zakhour , Stephen V. Hanly

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

A simple line network model is proposed to study the downlink cellular network. Without base station cooperation, the system is interference-limited. The interference limitation is overcome when the base stations are allowed to jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-28 Chris T. K. Ng , Howard Huang

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

Dynamic Time Division Duplex (TDD) has been introduced as a solution to deal with the uplink and downlink traffic asymmetry, mainly observed for dense heterogeneous network deployments. However, the use of this feature requires new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Jalal Rachad , Ridha Nasri , Laurent Decreusefond

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