Vector broadcast channels: optimality of threshold feedback policies

Tharaka Samarasinghe*, Hazer Inaltekin, Jamie Evans

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Abstract

Beamforming techniques utilizing only partial channel state information (CSI) has gained popularity over other communication strategies requiring perfect CSI thanks to their lower feedback requirements. The amount of feedback in beamforming based communication systems can be further reduced through selective feedback techniques in which only the users with channels good enough are allowed to feed back by means of a decentralized feedback policy. In this paper, we prove that thresholding at the receiver is the rate-wise optimal decentralized feedback policy for feedback limited systems with prescribed feedback constraints. This result is highly adaptable due to its distribution independent nature, provides an analytical justification for the use of threshold feedback policies in practical systems, and reinforces previous work analyzing threshold feedback policies as a selective feedback technique without proving its optimality. It is robust to selfish unilateral deviations. Finally, it reduces the search for rate-wise optimal feedback policies subject to feedback constraints from function spaces to a finite dimensional Euclidean space.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1292-1296
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781457705953, 9781457705946
ISBN (Print)9781457705960
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, ISIT 2011 - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Duration: 31 Jul 20115 Aug 2011

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)2157-8095
ISSN (Electronic)2157-8095

Other

Other2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, ISIT 2011
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CitySt. Petersburg
Period31/07/115/08/11

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