The capacity of discrete-time Gaussian MIMO channels with periodic characteristics

Nir Shlezinger, Ron Dabora

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Abstract

In many communications scenarios the channel exhibits periodic characteristics. Periodicity may be expressed as a periodically time-varying channel transfer function as well as an additive noise with periodically time-varying statistics. Examples for such scenarios include interference-limited communications, both wireless and wireline, and also power line communications (PLC). In this work, we characterize the capacity of discrete-time, finite-memory Gaussian multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels with periodic characteristics. The derivation transforms the periodic MIMO channel into an extended time-invariant MIMO channel, for which we obtain a closed-form capacity expression. It is shown that capacity can be achieved by an appropriate waterfilling scheme. The capacity expression obtained is numerically evaluated for practical PLC scenarios, and compared to the achievable rate of an ad-hoc orthogonal frequency division multiplexing based scheme, and the gains from optimally handling the periodicity of the channel are quantified.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationProceedings - ISIT 2016; 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
Pages1058-1062
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509018062
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Aug 2016
Event2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2016 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 10 Jul 201615 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
Volume2016-August

Conference

Conference2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2016
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period10/07/1615/07/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

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