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Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in the Low-SNR Regime
An extension of the popular diversity-multiplexing tradeoff framework to the
low-SNR (or wideband) regime is proposed. The concept of diversity gain is
shown to be redundant in this regime since the outage probability is
SNR-independent and depends on the multiplexing gain and the channel power gain
statistics only. The outage probability under the DMT framework is obtained in
an explicit, closed form for a broad class of channels. The low and high-SNR
regime boundaries are explicitly determined for the scalar Rayleigh-fading
channel, indicating a significant limitation of the SNR-asymptotic DMT when the
multiplexing gain is small.Comment: accepted by IEEE Comm. Letter
Open-Loop Spatial Multiplexing and Diversity Communications in Ad Hoc Networks
This paper investigates the performance of open-loop multi-antenna
point-to-point links in ad hoc networks with slotted ALOHA medium access
control (MAC). We consider spatial multiplexing transmission with linear
maximum ratio combining and zero forcing receivers, as well as orthogonal space
time block coded transmission. New closed-form expressions are derived for the
outage probability, throughput and transmission capacity. Our results
demonstrate that both the best performing scheme and the optimum number of
transmit antennas depend on different network parameters, such as the node
intensity and the signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio operating value. We
then compare the performance to a network consisting of single-antenna devices
and an idealized fully centrally coordinated MAC. These results show that
multi-antenna schemes with a simple decentralized slotted ALOHA MAC can
outperform even idealized single-antenna networks in various practical
scenarios.Comment: 51 pages, 19 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information
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Exact MIMO Zero-Forcing Detection Analysis for Transmit-Correlated Rician Fading
We analyze the performance of multiple input/multiple output (MIMO)
communications systems employing spatial multiplexing and zero-forcing
detection (ZF). The distribution of the ZF signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is
characterized when either the intended stream or interfering streams experience
Rician fading, and when the fading may be correlated on the transmit side.
Previously, exact ZF analysis based on a well-known SNR expression has been
hindered by the noncentrality of the Wishart distribution involved. In
addition, approximation with a central-Wishart distribution has not proved
consistently accurate. In contrast, the following exact ZF study proceeds from
a lesser-known SNR expression that separates the intended and interfering
channel-gain vectors. By first conditioning on, and then averaging over the
interference, the ZF SNR distribution for Rician-Rayleigh fading is shown to be
an infinite linear combination of gamma distributions. On the other hand, for
Rayleigh-Rician fading, the ZF SNR is shown to be gamma-distributed. Based on
the SNR distribution, we derive new series expressions for the ZF average error
probability, outage probability, and ergodic capacity. Numerical results
confirm the accuracy of our new expressions, and reveal effects of interference
and channel statistics on performance.Comment: 14 pages, two-colum, 1 table, 10 figure
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