A Practical Coding Scheme for Interference Channel Using Constrained Partial Group Decoder

We propose novel coding and decoding methods for a fully connected K-user Gaussian interference channel via assigning multiple codebooks (layers) to each transmitter, such that at each receiver decoding interferers partially becomes feasible. Each receiver first identifies which interferers it should decode and which layers of them should be decoded, and then successively decodes a group of layers with a constraint on its group size treating the remaining layers as Gaussian noise. We provide a distributed algorithm that determines the transmission rate at each transmitter also finds the order of the layers to be successively decoded at each receiver. We also consider practical design of a system that employs the quadrature amplitude modulations (QAM) and rateless codes. Numerical results are provided on the achievable sum-rate under the ideal case of Gaussian signaling with random codes as well as on the system throughput under practical modulations and channel codes. The results show that the proposed multi-layer coding scheme with CPGD offers significant performance gain over the traditional un-layered transmission with single-user decoding.