Capacity of Sparse Wideband Channels with Partial Channel Feedback

Details Capacity of Sparse Wideband Channels with Partial Channel Feedback Capacity of Sparse Wideband Channels with Partial Channel Feedback

2008-01-23

arxiv.org/abs/0801.3521v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

32 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in European Transactions on Telecommunication, New Directions in Information The

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This paper studies the ergodic capacity of wideband multipath channels with limited feedback. Our work builds on recent results that have established the possibility of significant capacity gains in the wideband/low-SNR regime when there is perfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. Furthermore, the perfect CSI benchmark gain can be obtained with the feedback of just one bit per channel coefficient. However, the input signals used in these methods are peaky, that is, they have a large peak-to-average power ratios. Signal peakiness is related to channel coherence and many recent measurement campaigns show that, in contrast to previous assumptions, wideband channels exhibit a sparse multipath structure that naturally leads to coherence in time and frequency. In this work, we first show that even an instantaneous power constraint is sufficient to achieve the benchmark gain when perfect CSI is available at the receiver. In the more realistic non-coherent setting, we study the performance of a training-based signaling scheme. We show that multipath sparsity can be leveraged to achieve the benchmark gain under both average as well as instantaneous power constraints as long as the channel coherence scales at a sufficiently fast rate with signal space dimensions. We also present rules of thumb on choosing signaling parameters as a function of the channel parameters so that the full benefits of sparsity can be realized.

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