Quasi-Static Multiple-Antenna Fading Channels at Finite Blocklength

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2318726zbMATH Open1360.94269arXiv1311.2012WikidataQ63961366 ScholiaQ63961366MaRDI QIDQ2986288FDOQ2986288

Tobias Koch, Yury Polyanskiy, Giuseppe Durisi, Wei Yang

Publication date: 16 May 2017

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

Abstract: This paper investigates the maximal achievable rate for a given blocklength and error probability over quasi-static multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) fading channels, with and without channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and/or the receiver. The principal finding is that outage capacity, despite being an asymptotic quantity, is a sharp proxy for the finite-blocklength fundamental limits of slow-fading channels. Specifically, the channel dispersion is shown to be zero regardless of whether the fading realizations are available at both transmitter and receiver, at only one of them, or at neither of them. These results follow from analytically tractable converse and achievability bounds. Numerical evaluation of these bounds verifies that zero dispersion may indeed imply fast convergence to the outage capacity as the blocklength increases. In the example of a particular $1imes2$ single-input multiple-output (SIMO) Rician fading channel, the blocklength required to achieve $90\mathrm{\%}$ of capacity is about an order of magnitude smaller compared to the blocklength required for an AWGN channel with the same capacity. For this specific scenario, the coding/decoding schemes adopted in the LTE-Advanced standard are benchmarked against the finite-blocklength achievability and converse bounds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2012

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Cited In (2)

• Finite blocklength analysis of energy harvesting channels
• Random Beamforming Over Quasi-Static and Fading Channels: A Deterministic Equivalent Approach

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