Evaluation of the reliable data rates supported by multiple-antenna coded wireless links for QAM transmissions

We present some novel results about the reliable information-rate supported by point-to-point multiple-antenna Rayleigh-faded wireless links for coded transmissions that employ two-dimensional (QAM or PSK) data constellations. After deriving the symmetric capacity of these links, we present fast-computable analytical upper and lower bounds that are asymptotically exact both for high and low SNRs, and give rise to a reliable evaluation of the link capacity when perfect channel state information (CSI) is available at the receiver. Furthermore, asymptotically exact simple upper bounds are also presented for a tight evaluation of the outage probability.

[1]  Shlomo Shamai,et al.  Error Exponents And Outage Probabilities For The Block-Fading Gaussian Channel , 1991, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications..

[2]  Gregory W. Wornell,et al.  Performance limits of coded diversity methods for transmitter antenna arrays , 1999, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[3]  Thomas L. Marzetta,et al.  Capacity of a Mobile Multiple-Antenna Communication Link in Rayleigh Flat Fading , 1999, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[4]  Jack H. Winters,et al.  On the Capacity of Radio Communication Systems with Diversity in a Rayleigh Fading Environment , 1987, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[5]  Stephen G. Wilson,et al.  Digital Modulation and Coding , 1995 .

[6]  J. H. Winters,et al.  Effect of fading correlation on adaptive arrays in digital mobile radio , 1994 .

[7]  Andrew J. Viterbi,et al.  Principles of Digital Communication and Coding , 1979 .

[8]  Emre Telatar,et al.  Capacity of Multi-antenna Gaussian Channels , 1999, Eur. Trans. Telecommun..

[9]  Gregory W. Wornell,et al.  Efficient use of side information in multiple-antenna data transmission over fading channels , 1998, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[10]  Shlomo Shamai,et al.  Fading Channels: Information-Theoretic and Communication Aspects , 1998, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[11]  Sergio Verdú,et al.  A general formula for channel capacity , 1994, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[12]  A. Robert Calderbank,et al.  Space-Time Codes for High Data Rate Wireless Communications : Performance criterion and Code Construction , 1998, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[13]  D. F. Hays,et al.  Table of Integrals, Series, and Products , 1966 .

[14]  Thomas L. Marzetta,et al.  Unitary space-time modulation for multiple-antenna communications in Rayleigh flat fading , 2000, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[15]  James S. Harris,et al.  Tables of integrals , 1998 .

[16]  John M. Cioffi,et al.  Spatio-temporal coding for wireless communication , 1998, IEEE Trans. Commun..

[17]  Peter Lancaster,et al.  The theory of matrices , 1969 .

[18]  A. Robert Calderbank,et al.  Space-time block coding for wireless communications: performance results , 1999, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[19]  I. S. Gradshteyn,et al.  Table of Integrals, Series, and Products , 1976 .

[20]  M. J. Gans,et al.  On Limits of Wireless Communications in a Fading Environment when Using Multiple Antennas , 1998, Wirel. Pers. Commun..

[21]  A. Robert Calderbank,et al.  A space-time coding modem for high-data-rate wireless communications , 1998, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[22]  Sergio VerdÂ,et al.  Fading Channels: InformationTheoretic and Communications Aspects , 2000 .

[23]  S. Shamai,et al.  Error probabilities for the block-fading Gaussian channel , 1995 .

[24]  A. Robert Calderbank,et al.  Space-Time block codes from orthogonal designs , 1999, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[25]  Jack H. Winters,et al.  Smart antennas for wireless systems , 1998, IEEE Wirel. Commun..

[26]  A. Edelman.  Eigenvalues and condition numbers of random matrices , 1988 .