Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing

The Generalized Degrees of Freedom (GDoF) of the two user interference channel are characterized for all parameter regimes under the assumption of finite precision channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT), when a limited amount of cooperation is allowed between the transmitters in the form of π DoF of shared messages. In all cases, the number of over- the-air bits that each cooperation bit buys is shown to be equal to either 0, 1, 1/2 or 1/3.