TY - JOUR
T1 - Interference channel with an out-of-band relay
AU - Sahin, Onur
AU - Simeone, Osvaldo
AU - Erkip, Elza
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received September 30, 2009; revised June 29, 2010; accepted August 05, 2010. Date of current version April 20, 2011. The work of O. Simeone was supported in part by CCF-0914899. This work was supported in part by NSF Grant 0520054 and in part by the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology, Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - A Gaussian interference channel (IC) with a relay is considered. The relay is assumed to operate over an orthogonal band with respect to the underlying IC, and the overall system is referred to as IC with an out-of-band relay (IC-OBR). The system can be seen as operating over two parallel interference-limited channels: The first is a standard Gaussian IC and the second is a Gaussian relay channel characterized by two sources and destinations communicating through the relay without direct links. We refer to the second parallel channel as OBR Channel (OBRC). The main aim of this work is to identify conditions under which optimal operation, in terms of the capacity region of the IC-OBR, entails either signal relaying and/or interference forwarding by the relay, with either a separable or nonseparable use of the two parallel channels, IC, and OBRC. Here, "separable" refers to transmission of independent information over the two constituent channels. For a basic model in which the OBRC consists of four orthogonal channels from sources to relay and from relay to destinations (IC-OBR Type-I), a condition is identified under which signal relaying and separable operation is optimal. This condition entails the presence of a relay-to-destinations capacity bottleneck on the OBRC and holds irrespective of the IC. When this condition is not satisfied, various scenarios, which depend on the IC channel gains, are identified in which interference forwarding and nonseparable operation are necessary to achieve optimal performance. In these scenarios, the system exploits the "excess capacity" on the OBRC via interference forwarding to drive the IC-OBR system in specific interference regimes (strong or mixed). The analysis is then turned to a more complex IC-OBR, in which the OBRC consists of only two orthogonal channels, one from sources to relay and one from relay to destinations (IC-OBR Type-II). For this channel, some capacity resuls are derived that parallel the conclusions for IC-OBR Type-I and point to the additional analytical challenges.
AB - A Gaussian interference channel (IC) with a relay is considered. The relay is assumed to operate over an orthogonal band with respect to the underlying IC, and the overall system is referred to as IC with an out-of-band relay (IC-OBR). The system can be seen as operating over two parallel interference-limited channels: The first is a standard Gaussian IC and the second is a Gaussian relay channel characterized by two sources and destinations communicating through the relay without direct links. We refer to the second parallel channel as OBR Channel (OBRC). The main aim of this work is to identify conditions under which optimal operation, in terms of the capacity region of the IC-OBR, entails either signal relaying and/or interference forwarding by the relay, with either a separable or nonseparable use of the two parallel channels, IC, and OBRC. Here, "separable" refers to transmission of independent information over the two constituent channels. For a basic model in which the OBRC consists of four orthogonal channels from sources to relay and from relay to destinations (IC-OBR Type-I), a condition is identified under which signal relaying and separable operation is optimal. This condition entails the presence of a relay-to-destinations capacity bottleneck on the OBRC and holds irrespective of the IC. When this condition is not satisfied, various scenarios, which depend on the IC channel gains, are identified in which interference forwarding and nonseparable operation are necessary to achieve optimal performance. In these scenarios, the system exploits the "excess capacity" on the OBRC via interference forwarding to drive the IC-OBR system in specific interference regimes (strong or mixed). The analysis is then turned to a more complex IC-OBR, in which the OBRC consists of only two orthogonal channels, one from sources to relay and one from relay to destinations (IC-OBR Type-II). For this channel, some capacity resuls are derived that parallel the conclusions for IC-OBR Type-I and point to the additional analytical challenges.
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U2 - 10.1109/TIT.2011.2119710
DO - 10.1109/TIT.2011.2119710
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955514555
SN - 0018-9448
VL - 57
SP - 2746
EP - 2764
JO - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
JF - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IS - 5
M1 - 5752442
ER -