Rayleigh fading multi-antenna channels

  • Authors:
  • Alex Grant

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Boulevard, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing - Space-time coding and its applications - part I
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Information theoretic properties of flat fading channels with multiple antennas are investigated. Perfect channel knowledge at the receiver is assumed. Expressions for maximum information rates and outage probabilities are derived. The advantages of transmitter channel knowledge are determined and a critical threshold is found beyond which such channel knowledge gains very little. Asymptotic expressions for the error exponent are found. For the case of transmit diversity closed form expressions for the error exponent and cutoff rate are given. The use of orthogonal modulating signals is shown to be asymptotically optimal in terms of information rate.