Optimal DoF Region of the Two-User MISO-BC with General Alternating CSIT

Abstract

In the setting of the time-selective two-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) broadcast channel (BC), recent work by Tandon et al. considered the case where - in the presence of error-free delayed channel state information at the transmitter (delayed CSIT) - the current CSIT for the channel of user 1 and of user 2, alternate between the two extreme states of perfect current CSIT and of no current CSIT. Motivated by the problem of having limited-capacity feedback links which may not allow for perfect CSIT, as well as by the need to utilize any available partial CSIT, we here deviate from this `all-or-nothing' approach and proceed - again in the presence of error-free delayed CSIT - to consider the general setting where current CSIT now alternates between any two qualities. Specifically for $I_1$ and $I_2$ denoting the high-SNR asymptotic rates-of-decay of the mean-square error of the CSIT estimates for the channel of user~1 and of user~2 respectively, we consider the case where $I_1,I_2\in \{\gamma ,\alpha \}$ for any two positive current-CSIT quality exponents $\gamma ,\alpha$. In a fast-fading setting where we consider communication over any number of coherence periods, and where each CSIT state $I_1{I}_2$ is present for a fraction ${\lambda }_{I_1{I}_2}$ of this total duration, we focus on the symmetric case of ${\lambda }_{\alpha \gamma }={\lambda }_{\gamma \alpha }$, and derive the optimal degrees-of-freedom (DoF) region. The result, which is supported by novel communication protocols, naturally incorporates the aforementioned `Perfect current' vs. `No current' setting by limiting $I_1,I_2\in \{0,1\}$. Finally, motivated by recent interest in frequency correlated channels with unmatched CSIT, we also analyze the setting where there is no delayed CSIT.

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