A Rate-Splitting Approach to Fading Channels With Imperfect Channel-State Information

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2321567zbMATH Open1360.94258DBLPjournals/tit/PastoreKF14arXiv1301.6120OpenAlexW2101781652WikidataQ63961362 ScholiaQ63961362MaRDI QIDQ2986289FDOQ2986289

Authors: Adriano Pastore, Tobias Koch, Javier Rodríguez Fonollosa 

Publication date: 16 May 2017

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

Abstract: As shown by M'edard, the capacity of fading channels with imperfect channel-state information (CSI) can be lower-bounded by assuming a Gaussian channel input $X$ with power $P$ and by upper-bounding the conditional entropy $h(X|Y,hatH)$ by the entropy of a Gaussian random variable with variance equal to the linear minimum mean-square error in estimating $X$ from $(Y,hatH)$. We demonstrate that, using a rate-splitting approach, this lower bound can be sharpened: by expressing the Gaussian input $X$ as the sum of two independent Gaussian variables $X_1$ and $X_2$ and by applying M'edard's lower bound first to bound the mutual information between $X_1$ and $Y$ while treating $X_2$ as noise, and by applying it a second time to the mutual information between $X_2$ and $Y$ while assuming $X_1$ to be known, we obtain a capacity lower bound that is strictly larger than M'edard's lower bound. We then generalize this approach to an arbitrary number $L$ of layers, where $X$ is expressed as the sum of $L$ independent Gaussian random variables of respective variances $P_{ell}$, $ell=1,dotsc,L$ summing up to $P$. Among all such rate-splitting bounds, we determine the supremum over power allocations $P_{e}ll$ and total number of layers $L$. This supremum is achieved for $Loinfty$ and gives rise to an analytically expressible capacity lower bound. For Gaussian fading, this novel bound is shown to converge to the Gaussian-input mutual information as the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) grows, provided that the variance of the channel estimation error $H-hatH$ tends to zero as the SNR tends to infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6120

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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