IEICE Transactions on Communications
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On the Degrees of Freedom of a Propagation-Delay Based Multicast X Channel with Two Transmitters and Arbitrary Receivers
Conggai LIQian GANFeng LIUYanli XU
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2023 Volume E106.B Issue 3 Pages 267-274

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Compared with the unicast scenario, X channels with multicast messaging can support richer transmission scenarios. The transmission efficiency of the wireless multicast X channel is an important and open problem. This article studies the degrees of freedom of a propagation-delay based multicast X channel with two transmitters and arbitrary receivers, where each transmitter sends K different messages and each receiver desires K - 1 of them from each transmitter. The cyclic polynomial approach is adopted for modeling and analysis. The DoF upper bound is analyzed and shown to be unreachable. Then a suboptimal scheme with one extra time-slot cycle is proposed, which uses the cyclic interference alignment method and achieves a DoF of K - 1. Finally, the feasibility conditions in the Euclidean space are derived and the potential applications are demonstrated for underwater acoustic and terrestrial radio communications.

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