Asymptotically optimal transmit strategies for the multiple antenna interference channel

Abstract

We consider the interference channel with multiple antennas at the transmitter. We prove that at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the zero-forcing transmit scheme is optimal in the sum-rate sense. Furthermore we prove that at low SNR, maximum-ratio transmission is optimal in the sum-rate sense. We also provide a discussion of the connection to classical results on spectral efficiency in the wideband regime. Finally, we propose a non-convex optimization approach based on monotonic optimization to solve the sum rate maximization problem.