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Approximate capacity of the symmetric half-duplex Gaussian butterfly network A. Salman Avestimehr Tracey Ho California Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. Pasadena, California, USA. avestime@ tho@ Abstract—In this paper we study the capacity of the half- approach was also applied recently to the bidirectional relay duplex wireless butterfly network, in which a relay node facil- channel problem [6], which again resulted in approximating itates the communication between two interfering transmitter- its capacity region. receiver pairs. We use the deterministic approach to make Inspired by these results, we examine the deterministic half- progress towards approximating the capacity region of this network. We use the insights obtained from the analysis of duplex butterfly network. We first derive a new outer bound on the corresponding deterministic problem to derive a new upper its capacity which is tighter than the cut-set upper bound. Then bound on the capacity of this network. We also propose a in the case that the channel gains are symmetric, we propose transmission strategy and show that for symmetric channel gains a scheme that achieves the outer bound and characterize the the gap between its achievable rate region and the upper bound is at most log 15 ≈ 1.95 bits/sec/Hz per user. capacity exactly. Quite inter