2020 IEEE International Symposium
on Information Theory
21-26 June 2020 • Los Angeles, California, USA
| Paper ID | I.4.1 | ||
| Paper Title | On the AND-OR Interference Channel and the Sandglass Conjecture | ||
| Authors | Chandra Nair, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; Mehdi Yazdanpanah, Goldman Sachs (HK), China | ||
| Session | I.4: Interference Channel II | ||
| Presentation | Lecture | ||
| Track | Network Information Theory | ||
| Manuscript | Click here to download the manuscript | ||
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| Abstract | This paper is mostly a follow up on the work of Etkin and Ordentlich that studied the capacity regions of binary input deterministic interference channels. The only binary input deterministic interference channel whose capacity region is unknown (up to isomorphism) is when one receiver receives the Boolean AND of the two transmitted symbols, and the other receiver obtains the Boolean OR of the two transmitted symbols. Etkin and Ordentlich stated in the paper that they believed that time-division would be the capacity region for this interference channel. In this paper we show that one can achieve rates outside the time-division region. That time-division yields the zero-error capacity region for this setting is known as Simonyi’s sand-glass conjecture, a statement that has received considerable attention in the combinatorics community. Various upper-bounds on the sum-rate of the zero error capacity region had been proposed in the combinatorics community. In this paper we evaluate an outer bound to the (traditional notion of) capacity region due to Etkin and Ordentlich and show that this yields, surprisingly, a tighter bound that the best known bound for the sand-glass problem. Finally, we establish the capacity region of the some special classes of binary input interference channels by improving on the outer-bound proposed by Etkin and Ordentlich. | ||
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