On the overhead of interference alignment: Training, feedback, and cooperation

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4192-4203

  El Ayach, Omar ^a   Lozano, Angel ^b   Heath Jr , Robert W ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

analog feedback; channel estimation; channel state information (CSI); interference alignment; interference cancellation; interference channels; MIMO; multiple access interference

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE CHANNELS; ACQUISITION PROCESS; CHANNEL KNOWLEDGE; CHANNEL SELECTIVITY; COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION; DOPPLER SPREAD; ESTIMATION ERRORS; FEEDBACK CHANNEL; FEEDBACK OVERHEAD; FEEDBACK SYSTEMS; INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT; INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION; INTERFERENCE CHANNELS; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT SYSTEM; NETWORK DESIGN; NETWORK DESIGN PROBLEMS; NON-ASYMPTOTIC; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; OPTIMAL NUMBER; PERFORMANCE METRICES; SIGNAL POWER; SUM-RATE;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; FEEDBACK; MIMO SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION;

EID: 84870494450     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.092412120588     Document Type: Article

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