Degrees of freedom of a communication channel: using DOF singular values

Authors:
Ram Somaraju;Jochen Trumpf
Affiliations:
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT, Australia;School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Venue:
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Year:
2010

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Abstract

A fundamental problem in any communication system is: given a communication channel between a transmitter and a receiver, how many "independent" signals can be exchanged between them? Arbitrary communication channels that can be described by linear compact channel operators mapping between normed spaces are examined in this paper. The (well-known) notions of degrees of freedom (DOF) at level ε and essential dimension of such channels are developed in this general setting. We argue that the DOF at level ε and the essential dimension fundamentally limit the number of independent signals that can be exchanged between the transmitter and the receiver. We also generalize the concept of singular values of compact operators to be applicable to compact operators defined on arbitrary normed spaces which do not necessarily carry a Hilbert space structure. We show how these generalized singular values, which we call DOF singular values, can be used to calculate the DOF at level ε and the essential dimension of compact operators that describe communication channels. We describe physically realistic channels that require such general channel models.