Unified Space–Time-Message Interference Alignment: An End-to-End Learning Approach

TL;DR

This paper introduces a deep learning framework to manage interference in wireless communication under imperfect channel conditions.

Contribution

Proposes Deep-STMIA, an end-to-end learning approach for joint space-time-message interference alignment.

Findings

Deep-STMIA matches DoF optimal benchmarks in extreme CSI regimes.

Outperforms RSMA in practical imperfect CSIT scenarios.

Mitigates error propagation in high-order modulation settings.

Abstract

This paper investigates the performance of a multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) broadcast channel under the practical constraints of imperfect, delayed, and quantized channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). Conventional interference alignment (IA) strategies—classified into spatial (SIA), temporal (TIA), and message-domain (MIA) techniques— typically designed for specific, idealized CSI regimes and often rely on successive interference cancellation (SIC) at the receiver. However, the iterative structure of SIC is highly susceptible to error propagation, particularly under CSI uncertainty and high-order modulation. We propose Deep-STMIA, a novel end-to-end deep learning framework that jointly optimizes interference management across the space, time, and message domains. Using a neural network-based autoencoder architecture with structural message-domain regularization, Deep-STMIA learns to mitigate the catastrophic effects of error propagation and adapts to a continuum of CSIT conditions. Simulation results demonstrate that Deep-STMIA matches the performance of degrees-of-freedom (DoF) optimal benchmarks in extreme CSI regimes and significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, such as rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA), in practical imperfect CSIT scenarios.

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