On network interference management

  • Authors:
  • Aleksandar Jovičić;Hua Wang;Pramod Viswanath

  • Affiliations:
  • Qualcomm Flarion Technologies, Bridgewater, NJ;Qualcomm Flarion Technologies, Bridgewater, NJ;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We study two building-block models of interference-limited wireless networks, motivated by the problem of joint Peer-to-Peer and Wide Area Network design. In the first case, a single "long-range" transmitter interferes with multiple parallel "short-range" transmissions, and, in the second case, multiple short-range transmitters interfere with a single long-range receiver. We identify the maximal degree-of-freedom region of the former network and show that multilevel superposition coding by the long-range transmitter performs optimally. Moreover, a simple power control strategy, performed by the long-range transmitter, achieves a region that is within one bit of the capacity region, under certain channel conditions. For the latter network, we show that short-range transmitter power control is degree-of-freedom optimal under certain channel conditions.