Optimal Multiplexing Gain of K-user Line-of-Sight Interference Channels with Polarization

TL;DR

This paper investigates the maximum multiplexing gain in K-user line-of-sight interference channels using polarimetric antennas, proposing a zero forcing scheme that achieves the theoretical upper bound for various user counts.

Contribution

It introduces a zero forcing scheme with minimal antenna configurations to reach the optimal multiplexing gain in LOS interference channels with polarization.

Findings

Maximum MUXG is K with single polarization due to key-hole effect.

Polarization can double the MUXG to 2K.

Proposed scheme achieves 2K MUXG for K > 5 with specific antenna configurations.

Abstract

We consider the multiplexing gain (MUXG) of the fully connected K-user line-of-sight (LOS) interference channels (ICs). A polarimetric antenna composed of 3 orthogonal electric dipoles and 3 orthogonal magnetic dipoles is considered where all 6 dipoles are co-located. In case of K-user IC with single polarization, the maximum achievable MUXG is K regardless of the number of transmit and receive antennas because of the key-hole effect. With polarization, a trivial upper bound on the MUXG is 2K. We propose a zero forcing (ZF) scheme for the K-user LOS IC, where each user uses one or more polarimetric antennas. By using the proposed ZF scheme, we find minimal antenna configurations that achieve this bound for K <= 5. For K > 5, we show that the optimal MUXG of 2K is achieved with M = (K+1)/6 polarimetric antennas at each user.