Precise Performance Characterization of Precoded Integer Forcing Applied to Two Parallel Channels

Yarden Regev*, Uri Erez

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Abstract

Precoded integer-forcing equalization is a low-complexity transmission and reception scheme, primarily designed for open-loop communication. The data is encoded into independent streams, all using the same linear code, after which linear precoding is applied, while integer-forcing equalization is applied at the receiver side. Previous works have established that this architecture achieves channel capacity up to a finite gap for general multiple-input multiple-output Gaussian channels, as well as obtained tighter bounds for the special case of diagonal (parallel) channels. The present work provides a precise performance characterization when integer-forcing equalization is applied to two parallel channels and where precoding is done using the full-diversity rotation matrix cyclo2. It is shown that this scheme achieves capacity up to a gap bounded by log2(9/5) bits per complex channel use when the standard integer-forcing receiver is used, and the gap is reduced to log2(5/4) bits per complex channel use when its successive decoding variant is applied. In addition, a full characterization of the basis transformation matrices used by the integer-forcing receiver is derived. These turn out to consist only of Fibonacci numbers and are explicitly determined as a function of the condition number. The results obtained are also highly relevant to lattice-reduction detection   schemes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7920-7931
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume20
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2021

Funding

FundersFunder number
Genesis Consortium
Israel Ministry of Economy and Industry

    Keywords

    • Equalization
    • MIMO
    • integer-forcing
    • lattice reduction
    • unitary precoding

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