Improvement of the Han-Kobayashi Rate Region for General Interference Channel

Allowing the input auxiliary random variables to be correlated and using the binning scheme, the Han- Kobayashi (HK) rate region for general interference channel is improved. The obtained new achievable rate region (i) is shown to encompass the HK region and its simplified description, i.e., Chong-Motani-Garg (CMG) region,considering a detailed and favorable comparison between different versions of the regions, and (ii) has an interesting and easy interpretation: as expected, any rate in our region has generally two additional terms in comparison with the HK region (one due to the input correlation and the other as a result of the binning scheme).