Abstract
The rate-reliability-complexity limits of a quasi-static K-user multiple access channel (MAC), with or without feedback, are explored in this paper. Using high-SNR asymptotics, bounds on the computational resources required to achieve near-optimal (ML-based) decoding performance are first derived. They, in turn, yield bounds on the (reduced) complexity needed to achieve any (including suboptimal) diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) performance. Similar complexity-bounds in the presence of feedback-aided user selection are also given. This latter effort reveals the ability of a few bits of feedback not only to improve performance, but also to reduce complexity. In this context, our analysis reveals the interesting finding that a proper calibration of user selection can allow for near-optimal ML-based decoding, with complexity that need not scale exponentially in the total number of codeword bits. The derived bounds constitute the best known performance-versus-complexity behavior to date for ML-based MAC decoding, as well as a first exploration of the complexity-feedback-performance interdependencies in multiuser settings.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 7358145 |
Pages (from-to) | 1867-1880 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing |
Volume | 64 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Apr 2016 |
Keywords
- Complexity exponent
- User selection
- diversity-multiplexing tradeoff
- multiple access channel
- performance-complexity tradeoff