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The nested array, which is implemented by nonuniform antenna placement, is an effective approach to achieve O(N^2) degrees of freedom (DoF) with an antenna array of N antennas. Such DoF refers to the number of directions of incoming signals…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Mingjie Feng , Shiwen Mao

The $2$ user MIMO interference channel with arbitrary antenna configurations is studied under arbitrary levels of partial CSIT for each of the channels, to find the degrees of freedom (DoF) achievable by either user while the other user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Bofeng Yuan , Syed A. Jafar

Cache-aided MIMO communications aims to jointly exploit both coded caching~(CC) and spatial multiplexing gains to enhance communication efficiency. In this paper, we analyze both the achievable degrees of freedom~(DoF) under linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

We study the impact of heterogeneity of channel-state-information available at the transmitters (CSIT) on the capacity of broadcast channels with a multiple-antenna transmitter and $k$ single-antenna receivers (MISO BC). In particular, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sina Lashgari , Ravi Tandon , Salman Avestimehr

This paper studies the two-way butterfly network, a class of two-way four-unicast networks. We first show that bidirectional links do not increase the degrees of freedom for this network thus giving the first example for networks, to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Mehdi Ashraphijuo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang

In this paper, we study the effect of the absence of channel knowledge for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) networks. Specifically, we assume perfect channel state information at the receivers, no channel state information at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-23 Chiachi Huang , Syed A. Jafar , Shlomo Shamai , Sriram Vishwanath

We revisit the recent secure degrees of freedom (s.d.o.f.) results for one-hop multi-user wireless networks by considering three fundamental wireless network structures: Gaussian wiretap channel with helpers, Gaussian multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Jianwei Xie , Sennur Ulukus

In order to explore how blind interference alignment (BIA) schemes may take advantage of side-information in computation tasks, we study the degrees of freedom (DoF) of a $K$ user wireless network setting that arises in full-duplex wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuxiang Lu , Syed A. Jafar

The performance of holographic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, employing two-dimensional (2-D) planar antenna arrays, is typically compromised by finite degrees-of-freedom (DOF) stemming from limited array size. The…

This paper focuses on two-cell multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian interfering broadcast channels (MIMO-IFBC) with $K$ cooperating users on the cell-boundary of each BS. It corresponds to a downlink scenario for cellular networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Wonjae Shin , Namyoon Lee , Jong-Bu Lim , Changyong Shin , Kyunghun Jang

We consider a line-of-sight communication link between two holographic surfaces (HoloSs), and provide a closed-form expression for the effective degrees of freedom (eDoF), i.e., the number of orthogonal communication modes that can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Juan Carlos Ruiz-Sicilia , Marco Di Renzo , Marco Donald Migliore , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

The challenge to in-band full-duplex wireless communication is managing self-interference. Many designs have employed spatial isolation mechanisms, such as shielding or multi-antenna beamforming, to isolate the self-interference wave from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Evan Everett , Ashutosh Sabharwal

We study the secure degrees of freedom (d.o.f.) of one-hop wireless networks by considering four fundamental Gaussian network structures: wiretap channel, broadcast channel with confidential messages, interference channel with confidential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jianwei Xie , Sennur Ulukus

Intelligent wireless networks have long been expected to have self-configuration and self-optimization capabilities to adapt to various environments and demands. In this paper, we develop a novel distributed hierarchical deep reinforcement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Kaiwen Yu , Chonghao Zhao , Gang Wu , Geoffrey Ye Li

We study in this paper a two-hop relaying network consisting of one source, one destination, and three amplify-and-forward (AF) relays operating in a half-duplex mode. In order to compensate for the inherent loss of capacity pre-log factor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Ki-Hong Park , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Future multi-tier communication networks will require enhanced network capacity and reduced overhead. In the absence of Channel State Information (CSI) at the transmitters, Blind Interference Alignment (BIA) and Topological Interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Vaia Kalokidou , Oliver Johnson , Robert Piechocki

The degrees of freedom (DoF) of the $K$-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel are studied when perfect, but delayed channel state information is available at the transmitter side (delayed CSIT). Recent works have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Marc Torrellas , Adrian Agustin , Josep Vidal

We study the sum degrees of freedom (DoF) of a class of multi-layer relay-aided MIMO broadcast networks with delayed channel state information at transmitters (CSIT). In the assumed network a K-antenna source intends to communicate to K…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Zhao Wang , Ming Xiao , Chao Wang , Mikael Skoglund

We study the effects of instantaneous feedback of channel topology on the degrees of freedom (DoF) of the bursty MIMO X channel, where the four transmitter-receiver links are intermittently on-and-off, governed by four independent Bernoulli…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Shih-Yi Yeh , I-Hsiang Wang

The number of degrees of freedom (NDoF) in a communication channel fundamentally limits the number of independent spatial modes available for transmitting and receiving information. Although the NDoF can be computed numerically for specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Mats Gustafsson