The Stability Region of the Two-User Broadcast Channel

TL;DR

This paper characterizes the stability region of a two-user broadcast channel, providing insights into different decoding strategies and their impact on system stability.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive analysis of the stability region for the two-user broadcast channel, including specific cases with interference treatment and superposition coding.

Findings

Stability region characterized for general two-user broadcast channel.

Analysis of stability under interference-as-noise decoding.

Results for superposition coding with successive decoding.

Abstract

In this paper, we characterize the stability region of the two-user broadcast channel. First, we obtain the stability region in the general case. Second, we consider the particular case where each receiver treats the interfering signal as noise, as well as the case in which the packets are transmitted using superposition coding and successive decoding is employed at the strong receiver.