Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2007-11-28
Computer Science
Information Theory
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Scientific paper
This paper investigates point-to-point information transmission over a wideband slow-fading channel, modeled as an (asymptotically) large number of independent identically distributed parallel channels, with the random channel fading realizations remaining constant over the entire coding block. On the one hand, in the wideband limit the minimum achievable energy per nat required for reliable transmission, as a random variable, converges in probability to certain deterministic quantity. On the other hand, the exponential decay rate of the outage probability, termed as the wideband outage exponent, characterizes how the number of parallel channels, {\it i.e.}, the ``bandwidth'', should asymptotically scale in order to achieve a target outage probability at a target energy per nat. We examine two scenarios: when the transmitter has no channel state information and adopts uniform transmit power allocation among parallel channels; and when the transmitter is endowed with an one-bit channel state feedback for each parallel channel and accordingly allocates its transmit power. For both scenarios, we evaluate the wideband minimum energy per nat and the wideband outage exponent, and discuss their implication for system performance.
Mitra Urbashi
Zhang Wenyi
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