  In this paper, we study the impact of different channel output feedback
architectures on the capacity of the two-user interference channel. For a
two-user interference channel, a feedback link can exist between receivers and
transmitters in 9 canonical architectures (see Fig. 2), ranging from only one
feedback link to four feedback links. We derive the exact capacity region for
the symmetric deterministic interference channel and the constant-gap capacity
region for the symmetric Gaussian interference channel for all of the 9
architectures. We show that for a linear deterministic symmetric interference
channel, in the weak interference regime, all models of feedback, except the
one, which has only one of the receivers feeding back to its own transmitter,
have the identical capacity region. When only one of the receivers feeds back
to its own transmitter, the capacity region is a strict subset of the capacity
region of the rest of the feedback models in the weak interference regime.
However, the sum-capacity of all feedback models is identical in the weak
interference regime. Moreover, in the strong interference regime all models of
feedback with at least one of the receivers feeding back to its own transmitter
have the identical sum-capacity. For the Gaussian interference channel, the
results of the linear deterministic model follow, where capacity is replaced
with approximate capacity.
