Iterative Polite Water-Filling for Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization in iTree Networks

It is well known that in general, the traditional water-filling is far from optimal in networks. We recently found the long-sought network version of water-filling named polite water-filling that is optimal for a large class of MIMO networks called B-MAC networks, of which interference Tree (iTree) networks is a subset whose interference graphs have no directional loop. iTree networks is a natural extension of both broadcast channel (BC) and multiaccess channel (MAC) and possesses many desirable properties for further information theoretic study. Given the optimality of the polite water-filling, general purpose optimization algorithms for networks are no longer needed because they do not exploit the structure of the problems. Here, we demonstrate it through the weighted sum-rate maximization. The significance of the results is that the algorithm can be easily modified for general B-MAC networks with interference loops. It illustrates the properties of iTree networks and for the special cases of MAC and BC, replaces the current steepest ascent algorithms for finding the capacity regions. The fast convergence and high accuracy of the proposed algorithms are verified by simulation.