The Shannon's mutual information of a multiple antenna time and frequency dependent channel: An ergodic operator approach

Abstract

Consider a random non-centered multiple antenna radio transmission channel. Assume that the deterministic part of the channel is itself frequency selective and that the random multipath part is represented by an ergodic stationary vector process. In the Hilbert space l2(Z), one can associate to this channel a random ergodic self-adjoint operator having a so-called Integrated Density of States (IDS). Shannon's mutual information per receive antenna of this channel coincides then with the integral of a log function with respect to the IDS. In this paper, it is shown that when the numbers of antennas at the transmitter and at the receiver tend to infinity at the same rate, the mutual information per receive antenna tends to a quantity that can be identified and, in fact, is closely related to that obtained within the random matrix approach [I. Telatar, Eur. Trans. Telecommun. 10, 585 (1999)]. This result can be obtained by analyzing the behavior of the Stieltjes transform of the IDS in the regime of the large numbers of antennas. © 2015 AIP Publishing LLC