On the Cognitive Interference Channel with Unidirectional Destination Cooperation

The cognitive interference channel with unidirectional destination cooperation (CIFC-UDC) is a cognitive interference channel (CIFC) where the cognitive (secondary) destination not only decodes the information sent from its sending dual but also helps enhance the communication of the primary user. This channel model is an extension of the original CIFC to achieve a win-win solution under the coexistence condition. From an information-theoretic perspective, the CIFC-UDC comprises a broadcast channel (BC), a relay channel (RC) and a partially cooperative relay broadcast channel (PCRBC), and can be degraded to any one of them. Our main result is the establishment of a new unified achievable rate region for the CIFC-UDC which is the largest known to date and can be explicitly shown to include the previous result proposed by Chu and the largest known rate regions for the BC, the RC and the PCRBC. In addition, an interesting viewpoint on the unidirectional destination cooperation in the CIFC-UDC is discussed: to enable the decoder of the primary user to perform interference mitigation can be considered as a complementary idea to the interference mitigation via Gel’fand-Pinsker precoding in the CIFC proposed by Devroye et al. Henceforth, by combing these two ideas, the interferences caused at both the destinations can be alleviated. Lastly, an outer bound is presented and proved to be tight for a class of the CIFC-UDC, resulting in the characterization of the capacity region for this class.