Approximately universal codes over slow-fading channels

DOI10.1109/TIT.2006.876226zbMATH Open1298.94060arXivcs/0512017MaRDI QIDQ3547700FDOQ3547700

Authors: Saurabha Tavildar, P. Viswanath 

Publication date: 21 December 2008

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

Abstract: Performance of reliable communication over a coherent slow fading channel at high SNR is succinctly captured as a fundamental tradeoff between diversity and multiplexing gains. We study the problem of designing codes that optimally tradeoff the diversity and multiplexing gains. Our main contribution is a precise characterization of codes that are universally tradeoff-optimal, i.e., they optimally tradeoff the diversity and multiplexing gains for every statistical characterization of the fading channel. We denote this characterization as one of approximate universality where the approximation is in the connection between error probability and outage capacity with diversity and multiplexing gains, respectively. The characterization of approximate universality is then used to construct new coding schemes as well as to show optimality of several schemes proposed in the space-time coding literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0512017

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zbMATH Keywords

space-time codesmultiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)fading channeluniversal codesCompound channeldiversity-multiplexing tradeoff

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Source coding (94A29) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

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• On universally decodable matrices for space-time coding
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