High-SNR power offset in multiantenna communication
The analysis of the multiantenna capacity in the high-SNR regime has hitherto focused on the high-SNR slope (or maximum multiplexing gain), which quantifies the multiplicative /nincrease as function of the number of antennas. This traditional characterization is unable to assess the impact of promin...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2006 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10230/16124 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10230/16124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2005.858937 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Ràdio -- Antenes Tractament del senyal Ràdio -- Interferències Channel capacity Multiantenna arrays High-SNR analysis Fading channels Antenna correlation Ricean channels Coherent communication |
| Resumo: | The analysis of the multiantenna capacity in the high-SNR regime has hitherto focused on the high-SNR slope (or maximum multiplexing gain), which quantifies the multiplicative /nincrease as function of the number of antennas. This traditional characterization is unable to assess the impact of prominent channel features since, for a majority of channels, the slope equals the minimum of the number of transmit and receive antennas. Furthermore, a characterization based solely on the slope captures only the scaling but it has no notion of the power required for a certain capacity. This paper advocates a more refined characterization whereby, as function of SNRjdB, the high-SNR capacity is expanded as an affine function where the impact of channel features such as antenna correlation, unfaded components, etc, resides in the zero-order term or power offset. The power offset, for which we find insightful closed-form expressions, is shown to play a chief role for SNR levels of practical interest. |
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