Modulation for MIMO Networks with Several Users
Anatoly Khina, Ayal Hitron, Uri Erez

TL;DR
This paper generalizes a joint unitary triangularization technique for MIMO channels to multiple users, enabling near-optimal multi-user communication schemes with potential applications in network modulation.
Contribution
It extends a capacity-achieving scheme from two-user to multi-user MIMO networks using joint treatment of multiple channel uses, introducing the concept of Network Modulation.
Findings
Nearly optimal schemes exist for multi-user MIMO with large block lengths.
The generalized triangularization applies to multiple matrices, enabling multi-user applications.
Perfect solutions are not always possible, but the loss vanishes asymptotically.
Abstract
In a recent work, a capacity-achieving scheme for the common-message two-user MIMO broadcast channel, based on single-stream coding and decoding, was described. This was obtained via a novel joint unitary triangularization which is applied to the corresponding channel matrices. In this work, the triangularization is generalized, to any (finite) number of matrices, allowing multi-user applications. To that end, multiple channel uses are jointly treated, in a manner reminiscent of space-time coding. As opposed to the two-user case, in the general case there does not always exist a perfect (capacity-achieving) solution. However, a nearly optimal scheme (with vanishing loss in the limit of large blocks) always exists. Common-message broadcasting is but one example of communication networks with MIMO links which can be solved using an approach coined "Network Modulation"; the extension…
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