TY - JOUR
T1 - Degrees of Freedom and Achievable Rate of Wide-Band Multi-Cell Multiple Access Channels with No CSIT
AU - Jeon, Yo Seb
AU - Lee, Namyoon
AU - Tandon, Ravi
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received April 6, 2017; revised September 3, 2017 and November 27, 2017; accepted December 6, 2017. Date of publication December 14, 2017; date of current version April 16, 2018. The work of N. Lee was supported by the Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP) under grant funded by the MSIT of the Korea government [2017(2016-0-00123)]. The work of R. Tandon was supported by US NSF through grants CCF-1559758 and CNS-1715947. The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was S. Bhashyam. (Corresponding author: Namyoon Lee.) Y.-S. Jeon and N. Lee are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, South Korea (e-mail: yoseb.jeon@postech.ac.kr; nylee@postech.ac.kr).
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PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - This paper considers a $K$ -cell multiple access channel with inter-symbol interference. The primary finding of this paper is that, without instantaneous channel state information at the transmitters, interference-free degrees-of-freedom (DoF) per cell is achievable, provided that the delay spread of the desired links is significantly longer than that of the interfering links when the number of user per cell is sufficiently large. This achievability is shown by a blind interference management method that exploits the relativity in delay spreads between desired and interfering links. In this method, all inter-cell-interference signals are aligned-and-cancelled by using discrete-Fourier-transform-based precoding and combining, both depend only on the lengths of channel-impulse-response. In addition to the DoF analysis, the achievable rate of the proposed method is characterized in a closed-form expression. Some illustrative examples are presented to show an additional sum-DoF gain obtained by exploiting propagation delay in the interfering links or the heterogeneity of the channel coherence time between the desired and interfering links.
AB - This paper considers a $K$ -cell multiple access channel with inter-symbol interference. The primary finding of this paper is that, without instantaneous channel state information at the transmitters, interference-free degrees-of-freedom (DoF) per cell is achievable, provided that the delay spread of the desired links is significantly longer than that of the interfering links when the number of user per cell is sufficiently large. This achievability is shown by a blind interference management method that exploits the relativity in delay spreads between desired and interfering links. In this method, all inter-cell-interference signals are aligned-and-cancelled by using discrete-Fourier-transform-based precoding and combining, both depend only on the lengths of channel-impulse-response. In addition to the DoF analysis, the achievable rate of the proposed method is characterized in a closed-form expression. Some illustrative examples are presented to show an additional sum-DoF gain obtained by exploiting propagation delay in the interfering links or the heterogeneity of the channel coherence time between the desired and interfering links.
KW - Multiple access channel (MAC)
KW - blind interference management
KW - inter-symbol interference (ISI)
KW - interfering MAC
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U2 - 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2783625
DO - 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2783625
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038880189
SN - 0090-6778
VL - 66
SP - 1772
EP - 1786
JO - IEEE Transactions on Communications
JF - IEEE Transactions on Communications
IS - 4
ER -