On the Capacity Limit of Wireless Channels Under Colored Scattering

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2314678MaRDI QIDQ2986346zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wooseok Nam, Dongwoon Bai, Jungwon Lee, Inyup Kang

Publication date 16 May 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0047

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Abstract: It has been generally believed that the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel capacity grows linearly with the size of antenna arrays. In terms of degrees of freedom, linear transmit and receive arrays of length $L$ in a scattering environment of total angular spread $|Omega|$ asymptotically have $|Omega|L$ degrees of freedom. In this paper, it is claimed that the linear increase in degrees of freedom may not be attained when scattered electromagnetic fields in the underlying scattering environment are statistically correlated. After introducing a model of correlated scattering, which is referred to as the colored scattering model, we derive the number of degrees of freedom. Unlike the uncorrelated case, the number of degrees of freedom in the colored scattering channel is asymptotically limited by $|Omega|cdotminL,1/Gamma$, where $Gamma$ is a parameter determining the extent of correlation. In other words, for very large arrays in the colored scattering environment, degrees of freedom can get saturated to an intrinsic limit rather than increasing linearly with the array size.

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