Wideband fading channels with feedback

  • Authors:
  • Shashi Borade;Lizhong Zheng

  • Affiliations:
  • D. E. Shaw and Co., New York, NY and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The Rayleigh flat fading channel at low SNR is considered. With full channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and receiver, its capacity is shown to be essentially SNRlog(1/SNR) nats/symbol, as SNR goes to zero. In fact, this rate can be achieved with a just one bit of CSI at the transmitter (per fading realization) and with no receiver CSI. The capacity for the case of noisy transmitter CSI is also found. Then a Rayleigh block fading channel of coherence interval T ≤ 1/SNR is considered which has causal feedback and no a priori CSI. A training based scheme is proposed for such channels, which achieves a rate of SNR T nats/symbol in the limit of small SNR and large T. Thus, when coherence interval T is of the order 1/SNR, without any a priori CSI at either end, the capacity with full CSI at both ends is achievable. For smaller values of T, a rate of SNR log T nats/symbol is shown to be achievable.