Coherent Multiple-Antenna Block-Fading Channels at Finite Blocklength

DOI10.1109/TIT.2018.2860979MaRDI QIDQ4611443zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 18 January 2019

Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06962

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Abstract: In this paper we consider a channel model that is often used to describe the mobile wireless scenario: multiple-antenna additive white Gaussian noise channels subject to random (fading) gain with full channel state information at the receiver. Dynamics of the fading process are approximated by a piecewise-constant process (frequency non-selective isotropic block fading). This work addresses the finite blocklength fundamental limits of this channel model. Specifically, we give a formula for the channel dispersion -- a quantity governing the delay required to achieve capacity. Multiplicative nature of the fading disturbance leads to a number of interesting technical difficulties that required us to enhance traditional methods for finding channel dispersion. Alas, one difficulty remains: the converse (impossibility) part of our result holds under an extra constraint on the growth of the peak-power with blocklength. Our results demonstrate, for example, that while capacities of

n_{t} i m e s n_{r}

and

n_{r} i m e s n_{t}

antenna configurations coincide (under fixed received power), the coding delay can be quite sensitive to this switch. For example, at the received SNR of

20

dB the

16 i m e s 100

system achieves capacity with codes of length (delay) which is only

60 %

of the length required for the

100 i m e s 16

system. Another interesting implication is that for the MISO channel, the dispersion-optimal coding schemes require employing orthogonal designs such as Alamouti's scheme -- a surprising observation considering the fact that Alamouti's scheme was designed for reducing demodulation errors, not improving coding rate. Finding these dispersion-optimal coding schemes naturally gives a criteria for producing orthogonal design-like inputs in dimensions where orthogonal designs do not exist.

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