Interference channels with arbitrarily correlated sources

  • Authors:
  • Wei Liu;Biao Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of EECS, Syracuse University;Department of EECS, Syracuse University

  • Venue:
  • Allerton'09 Proceedings of the 47th annual Allerton conference on Communication, control, and computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we study interference channels with arbitrarily correlated sources. A sufficient condition is found for reliably communicating a pair of correlated sources over a discrete memoryless interference channel. With independent sources, the sufficient condition reduces to the Han-Kobayashi achievable rate region for the interference channel. For a special correlation structure (in the sense of Slepian-Wolf, 1973), the proposed region reduces to the known achievable region for interference channels with common information. A simple example is given to show that the separation approach, with Slepian-Wolf encoding followed by optimal channel code, is strictly suboptimal.