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Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar Series
Wed, Oct 29, 2014 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Lijun Chen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Talk Title: The Weighted Sum Rate Maximization in MIMO Interference Networks: Minimax Lagrangian Duality and Algorithm
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: We take a new approach to the weighted sum-rate maximization in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference networks, by formulating an equivalent max-min problem. This reformulation has significant implications: the Lagrangian duality of the equivalent max-min problem provides an elegant way to establish the sum-rate duality between an interference network and its reciprocal, and more importantly, suggests a novel iterative minimax algorithm with monotonic convergence for the weighted sum-rate maximization. The design and the convergence proof of the algorithm use only general convex analysis. They apply and extend to other max-min problems with similar structure, and thus provide a general class of algorithms for such optimization problems. This paper presents a promising step and lends hope for establishing a general method based on the minimax Lagrangian duality for developing efficient resource allocation and interference management algorithms for general MIMO interference networks.
Biography: Lijun Chen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Telecommunications at University of Colorado at Boulder. He received a Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 2007, and was a Research Scientist in Computing + Mathematical Science at the same institute before joining Colorado. He was a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems in 2007. His current research interests are in communication networks, power networks, parsimonious recovery and low-rank solutions, and optimization, game theory and their engineering application.
Host: Prof. Ashutosh Nayyar
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
