Can feedback, cooperation, relays and full duplex operation increase the degrees of freedom of wireless networks?

Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar

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Abstract

We consider a fully connected network with S full duplex source nodes, D full duplex destination nodes and R relay nodes, perfect feedback to source and relay nodes, and noisy cooperation between all source, relay and destination nodes. We show that this network has SD/S+D-1 degrees of freedom if the channel gains are time-varying/frequency selective. The implication of the result is that, the techniques mentioned in the title (i.e relays etc.) can affect the capacity of a network only upto a o(log(SNR,)) term and therefore cannot improve the degrees of freedom of a network. Certain communication scenarios excluded by our system model where these techniques improve the degrees of freedom are also identified. Bounds on the degrees of freedom of a fully connected K node network emerge as a by-product of our study.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2008
Pages1263-1267
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2008 - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: Jul 6 2008Jul 11 2008

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2157-8101

Other

Other2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2008
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto, ON
Period7/6/087/11/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

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