Degrees of Freedom of Generic Block-Fading MIMO Channels Without <italic>a Priori</italic> Channel State Information

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2362931zbMATH Open1359.94498arXiv1310.2490MaRDI QIDQ2979166FDOQ2979166

Franz Hlawatsch, Giuseppe Durisi, Erwin Riegler, Günther Koliander

Publication date: 2 May 2017

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

Abstract: We studynthe high-SNR capacity of generic MIMO Rayleigh block-fading channels in the noncoherent setting where neither transmitter nor receiver has a priori channel state information but both are aware of the channel statistics. In contrast to the well-established constant block-fading model, we allow the fading to vary within each block with a temporal correlation that is "generic" (in the sense used in the interference-alignment literature). We show that the number of degrees of freedom of a generic MIMO Rayleigh block-fading channel with $T$ transmit antennas and block length $N$ is given by $T(1-1/N)$ provided that $T<N$ and the number of receive antennas is at least $T(N-1)/(N-T)$. A comparison with the constant block-fading channel (where the fading is constant within each block) shows that, for large block lengths, generic correlation increases the number of degrees of freedom by a factor of up to four.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2490

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• On Degrees of Freedom Region of MIMO Networks Without Channel State Information at Transmitters
• The Degrees of Freedom of Isotropic MIMO Interference Channels Without State Information at the Transmitters

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