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A promising approach is interference alignment (IA), which effectively reduces the interference and improves the throughput of a system in the MIMO interference channels. However, the IA scheme requires perfect channel state information (CSI) at all transceivers in practice, which results in considerable feedback overhead. Thus, limited IA feedback has attracted much attention. In this paper, we analyze the throughput loss of the K-user MIMO interference channels when each transmitter delivers multiple streams in one slot, and derives the upper-bound of the system interference leakage and throughput loss. Then, to reduce the interference leakage and throughput loss for the MIMO interference alignment with limited feedback, a joint power and feedback bit allocation optimization scheme is proposed. The simulation results show that, compared with the conventional schemes, the presented optimal scheme achieves less residual interference and better performance in the system throughput.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17030563","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,10]],"date-time":"2017-03-10T09:39:55Z","timestamp":1489138795000},"page":"563","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A Novel Joint Power and Feedback Bit Allocation Interference Alignment Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Shibao","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer and Communication Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chang","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer and Communication Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yixin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer and Communication Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer and Communication Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jianhang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer and Communication Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tingpei","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer and Communication Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7033","DOI":"10.3390\/s130607033","article-title":"Performance analysis of cooperative virtual MIMO systems for wireless sensor networks","volume":"13","author":"Rafique","year":"2013","journal-title":"Sensors"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"9887","DOI":"10.3390\/s111009887","article-title":"Cooperative mimo communication at wireless sensor network: An error correcting code approach","volume":"11","author":"Islam","year":"2011","journal-title":"Sensors"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"856","DOI":"10.1109\/TVT.2006.873837","article-title":"Virtual MIMO-based cross-layer design for wireless sensor networks","volume":"55","author":"Yuan","year":"2006","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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