Interference Alignment Testbeds
Journal article, 2017

Interference alignment has triggered high impact research in wireless communications since it was proposed nearly 10 years ago. However, the vast majority of research is centered on the theory of interference alignment and is hardly feasible in view of the existing state-of-the-art wireless technologies. Although several research groups have assessed the feasibility of interference alignment via testbed measurements in realistic environments, the experimental evaluation of interference alignment is still in its infancy since most of the experiments were limited to simpler scenarios and configurations. This article summarizes the practical limitations of experimentally evaluating interference alignment, provides an overview of the available interference alignment testbed implementations, including the costs, and highlights the imperatives for succeeding interference alignment testbed implementations. Finally, the article explores future research directions on the applications of interference alignment in the next generation wireless systems.

Author

Cenk M. Yetis

Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ)

Jacobo Fanjul

University of Cantabria

Jose A. Garcia-Naya

University of Cantabria

Nima N. Moghadam

Shahid Beheshti University

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Hamed Farhadi

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Systems and control

IEEE Communications Magazine

0163-6804 (ISSN) 15581896 (eISSN)

Vol. 55 10 120-126 8067698

Subject Categories

Communication Systems

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600471

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8/29/2018