Theory, July 1-6, 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA
Maddah-Ali and Tse have recently shown that delayed transmitter channel state information (CSIT) can still be useful in increasing the degrees-of-freedom (DoF) over the MIMO broadcast channel. This was achieved by constructing a scheme that, in the presence of two transmit antennas, of two singleantenna receivers, and of CSIT that is delayed by one coherence time, manages to provide each user with 2/3 DoF, improving upon the 1/2 DoF corresponding to no CSIT. This same scheme though, as well as all subsequent schemes pertinent schemes, achieve DoF gains by suppressing the inherent diversity of the broadcast parallel channel. The current work proposes a novel broadcast scheme which, over the above described setting of the delayed CSIT broadcast channel, employs a form of interference alignment to achieve both full DoF as well as full diversity.
