Capacity of MIMO systems with semicorrelated flat fading

  • Authors:
  • P. J. Smith;S. Roy;M. Shafi

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2003

Quantified Score

Hi-index 755.02

Visualization

Abstract

The primary contribution of this work lies in the derivation of the exact characteristic function (and hence, the mean and variance) of the capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for semicorrelated flat-fading channels. A Gaussian approximation to the exact capacity results is suggested and evaluated for its accuracy. We show that over a range of correlation levels this approximation is adequate even for moderate numbers of transmit and receive antennas.