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On the Capacity Achieving Covariance Matrix for Frequency Selective MIMO Channels Using the Asymptotic Approach
In this contribution, an algorithm for evaluating the capacity-achieving
input covariance matrices for frequency selective Rayleigh MIMO channels is
proposed. In contrast with the flat fading Rayleigh cases, no closed-form
expressions for the eigenvectors of the optimum input covariance matrix are
available. Classically, both the eigenvectors and eigenvalues are computed
numerically and the corresponding optimization algorithms remain
computationally very demanding. In this paper, it is proposed to optimize
(w.r.t. the input covariance matrix) a large system approximation of the
average mutual information derived by Moustakas and Simon. An algorithm based
on an iterative water filling scheme is proposed, and its convergence is
studied. Numerical simulation results show that, even for a moderate number of
transmit and receive antennas, the new approach provides the same results as
direct maximization approaches of the average mutual information.Comment: presented at ISIT 2010 Conference, Austin, Texas, June 13-18, 2010 (5
pages, 1 figure, 2 tables
Oversampling Increases the Pre-Log of Noncoherent Rayleigh Fading Channels
We analyze the capacity of a continuous-time, time-selective, Rayleigh
block-fading channel in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. The fading
process is assumed stationary within each block and to change independently
from block to block; furthermore, its realizations are not known a priori to
the transmitter and the receiver (noncoherent setting). A common approach to
analyzing the capacity of this channel is to assume that the receiver performs
matched filtering followed by sampling at symbol rate (symbol matched
filtering). This yields a discrete-time channel in which each transmitted
symbol corresponds to one output sample. Liang & Veeravalli (2004) showed that
the capacity of this discrete-time channel grows logarithmically with the SNR,
with a capacity pre-log equal to . Here, is the number of
symbols transmitted within one fading block, and is the rank of the
covariance matrix of the discrete-time channel gains within each fading block.
In this paper, we show that symbol matched filtering is not a
capacity-achieving strategy for the underlying continuous-time channel.
Specifically, we analyze the capacity pre-log of the discrete-time channel
obtained by oversampling the continuous-time channel output, i.e., by sampling
it faster than at symbol rate. We prove that by oversampling by a factor two
one gets a capacity pre-log that is at least as large as . Since the
capacity pre-log corresponding to symbol-rate sampling is , our result
implies indeed that symbol matched filtering is not capacity achieving at high
SNR.Comment: To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
On the precoder design of flat fading MIMO systems equipped with MMSE receivers: a large system approach
This paper is devoted to the design of precoders maximizing the ergodic
mutual information (EMI) of bi-correlated flat fading MIMO systems equiped with
MMSE receivers. The channel state information and the second order statistics
of the channel are assumed available at the receiver side and at the
transmitter side respectively. As the direct maximization of the EMI needs the
use of non attractive algorithms, it is proposed to optimize an approximation
of the EMI, introduced recently, obtained when the number of transmit and
receive antennas and converge to at the same rate. It is
established that the relative error between the actual EMI and its
approximation is a term. It is shown that the left
singular eigenvectors of the optimum precoder coincide with the eigenvectors of
the transmit covariance matrix, and its singular values are solution of a
certain maximization problem. Numerical experiments show that the mutual
information provided by this precoder is close from what is obtained by
maximizing the true EMI, but that the algorithm maximizing the approximation is
much less computationally intensive.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
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