Ergodic Spatial Nulling for Achieving Interference Free Rates

Amir Leshem, Uri Erez

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Abstract

It is shown that a receiver equipped with two antennas may null an arbitrary large number of spatial directions to any desired level, while maintaining the interference-free signal-to-noise ratio, by judiciously adjusting the distance between the antenna elements. The main theoretical result builds on ergodic theory. The practicality of the scheme for systems operating at a moderate signal-to-noise ratio is demonstrated for a scenario where each transmitter is equipped with a single antenna and each receiver has two antenna elements, the separation of which can be arbitrarily set. As an example, for a five-user planar line-of-sight interference channel, with the directions of users being uniformly distributed, at a signal-to-noise ratio of 10 dB, a near interference-free average transmission rate is achievable. This amounts to roughly doubling the average rate attained by non-naive time-division multiple access.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1292-1296
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538692912
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2019 - Paris, France
Duration: 7 Jul 201912 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
Volume2019-July
ISSN (Print)2157-8095

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period7/07/1912/07/19

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