Achievable degrees-of-freedom by distributed scheduling in an (n, K)-user interference channel

In this paper, we study the achievable degree-of-freedom (DoF) of an (n, K)-user interference network where n transmitter-receiver pairs are randomly distributed but only K transmitter-receiver pairs are allowed to communicate (n ≫ K). We propose a distributed user scheduling method to achieve the maximum DoF (i.e., K), which sequentially adds a transmitter-receiver pair causing/receiving interference to/from the previously selected transmitter-receiver pairs below a certain threshold level. It is proven that the maximum K DoF is achievable if the total number of communication pairs n scales ω(SNRK(K-1)) where SNR denotes the received signal-to-noise ratio. In addition, the total amount of the required feedback for the worst case and the feedback overhead per user are investigated in interference limited environments.