Constellation Design for the Noncoherent MIMO Rayleigh-Fading Channel at General SNR

DOI10.1109/TIT.2007.892783MaRDI QIDQ3548885zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shivratna Giri Srinivasan, Mahesh K. Varanasi

Publication date 21 December 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3710

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24) Channel models (including quantum) in information and communication theory (94A40)

Abstract: Reliable communication over the discrete-input/continuous-output noncoherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Rayleigh block fading channel is considered when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) per degree of freedom is low. Two key problems are posed and solved to obtain the optimum discrete input. In both problems, the average and peak power per space-time slot of the input constellation are constrained. In the first one, the peak power to average power ratio (PPAPR) of the input constellation is held fixed, while in the second problem, the peak power is fixed independently of the average power. In the first PPAPR-constrained problem, the mutual information, which grows as O(SNR^2), is maximized up to second order in SNR. In the second peak-constrained problem, where the mutual information behaves as O(SNR), the structure of constellations that are optimal up to first order, or equivalently, that minimize energy/bit, are explicitly characterized. Furthermore, among constellations that are first-order optimal, those that maximize the mutual information up to second order, or equivalently, the wideband slope, are characterized. In both PPAPR-constrained and peak-constrained problems, the optimal constellations are obtained in closed-form as solutions to non-convex optimizations, and interestingly, they are found to be identical. Due to its special structure, the common solution is referred to as Space Time Orthogonal Rank one Modulation, or STORM. In both problems, it is seen that STORM provides a sharp characterization of the behavior of noncoherent MIMO capacity.

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