Degrees-of-Freedom of the MIMO Three-Way Channel with Node-Intermittency
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ArticleKAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and EngineeringComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering Program
Date
2019Preprint Posting Date
2017-08-28Permanent link to this record
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The characterization of fundamental performance bounds of many-to-many communication systems in which participating nodes are active in an intermittent way is one of the major challenges in communication theory. In order to address this issue, we introduce the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) three-way channel (3WC) with an intermittent node and study its degrees-of-freedom (DoF) region and sum-DoF. We devise a non-adaptive encoding scheme based on zero-forcing, interference alignment and erasure coding, and show its DoF region (and thus sum-DoF) optimality for non-intermittent 3WCs and its sum-DoF optimality for (node-)intermittent 3WCs. However, we show by example that in general some DoF tuples in the intermittent 3WC can only be achieved by adaptive schemes, such as decode-forward relaying. This shows that non-adaptive encoding is sufficient for the non-intermittent 3WC and for the sum-DoF of intermittent 3WCs, but adaptive encoding is necessary for the DoF region of intermittent 3WCs. Our work contributes to a better understanding of the fundamental limits of multi-way communication systems with intermittency and the impact of adaptation therein.Citation
Neu, J., Chaaban, A., Sezgin, A., & Alouini, M.-S. (2019). Degrees-of-Freedom of the MIMO Three-Way Channel With Node-Intermittency. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 65(10), 6781–6800. doi:10.1109/tit.2019.2919548Sponsors
This work was supported in part by the German Research Foundation (DFG), under grant SE 1697/16. This work has been presented in part at the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.arXiv
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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8723619/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8723619
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10.1109/TIT.2019.2919548