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We consider the problem of Cyclic Interference Alignment (IA) on the 3-user X-network and show that it is infeasible to exactly achieve the upper bound of $\frac{K^2}{2K-1}=\frac{9}{5}$ degrees of freedom for the lower bound of n=5…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Henning Maier , Rudolf Mathar

Interference coordination improves data rates and reduces outages in cellular networks. Accurately evaluating the gains of coordination, however, is contingent upon using a network topology that models realistic cellular deployments. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Salam Akoum , Robert W. Heath

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

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

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

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

Interference mitigation techniques are essential for improving the performance of interference limited wireless networks. In this paper, we introduce novel interference mitigation schemes for wireless cellular networks with space division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-18 Martin Kasparick , Gerhard Wunder

In this paper we present an experimental study on the performance of spatial Interference Alignment (IA) in indoor wireless local area network scenarios that use Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) according to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Christian Lameiro , Óscar González , José A. García-Naya , Ignacio Santamaría , Luis Castedo

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

We study the problem of associating mobile terminals to base stations in a linear interference network, with the goal of maximizing the average rate achieved over both the uplink and downlink sessions. The cell association decision is made…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Aly El Gamal

This paper considers a distributed interference avoidance problem employing frequency assignment in the Gaussian interference channel (IC). We divide the common channel into several subchannels and each user chooses the subchannel with less…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Zhenhai Jing , Baoming Bai , Xiao Ma , Ying Li

Spatial interference alignment among a finite number of users is proposed as a technique to increase the probability of successful transmission in an interference limited clustered wireless ad hoc network. Using techniques from stochastic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-14 R. Tresch , M. Guillaud

This paper considers a cellular system with a full-duplex base station and half-duplex users. The base station can activate one user in uplink or downlink (half-duplex mode), or two different users one in each direction simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Shahram Shahsavari , David Ramirez , Elza Erkip

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 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

Interference alignment (IA) has attracted great attention in the last few years for its breakthrough performance in interference networks. However, despite the numerous works dedicated to IA, the feasibility conditions of IA remains unclear…

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

To accommodate the explosive growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), incorporating interference alignment (IA) into existing multiple access (MA) schemes is under investigation. However, when it is applied in MIMO networks to improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Jingfu Li , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Weifeng Su , Wenjiang Feng , Weiheng Jiang

It is already well-known that interference alignment (IA) achieves the sum capacity of the K-user interference channel at the high interference regime. On the other hand, it is intuitively clear that when the interference levels are very…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-27 George C. Alexandropoulos , Constantinos B. Papadias

Co-channel interference (CCI) is a performance limiting factor in molecular communication (MC) systems with shared medium. Interference alignment (IA) is a promising scheme to mitigate CCI in traditional communication systems. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Maryam Farahnak-Ghazani , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

One of the main challenges facing Internet of Things (IoT) networks is managing interference caused by the large number of devices communicating simultaneously, particularly in multi-cluster networks where multiple devices simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Lucas Sempéré , Yue Bi , Yue Wu , Pengwenlong Gu , Selma Boumerdassi