Source-Channel Coding Techniques in the Presence of Interference and Noise

As wireless systems proliferate worldwide, interference is becoming one of the main problems for system designers. Interference, which occurs when multiple transmis-sions take place over a common communication medium, limits system performance. Wireless devices can coordinate the use of scarce radio resources in order to manage the interference and establish successful communication. To effectively deal with the interference problem, some wireless devices must have a certain level of knowledge about the interference. In practice, this knowledge comes at the expense of using more resources (such as employing a proper channel training mechanism). With the remaining available resources, the question is how to achieve reliable communication? This thesis investigates an information theoretic approach and employs several cod-ing techniques to improve system performance by either cancelling the interference or extracting knowledge from it about the information signal. The first part of this thesis considers the transmission of information signals over a fading channel that is disturbed with additional interference. The system’s infor