Complex-Valued Random Vectors and Channels: Entropy, Divergence, and Capacity

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2011-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/1105.0769v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

33 pages, 1 figure, slightly modified version of first paper revision submitted to IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory on October 31, 2010

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Recent research has demonstrated significant achievable performance gains by exploiting circularity/non-circularity or propeness/improperness of complex-valued signals. In this paper, we investigate the influence of these properties on important information theoretic quantities such as entropy, divergence, and capacity. We prove two maximum entropy theorems that strengthen previously known results. The proof of the former theorem is based on the so-called circular analog of a given complex-valued random vector. Its introduction is supported by a characterization theorem that employs a minimum Kullback-Leibler divergence criterion. In the proof of latter theorem, on the other hand, results about the second-order structure of complex-valued random vectors are exploited. Furthermore, we address the capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. Regardless of the specific distribution of the channel parameters (noise vector and channel matrix, if modeled as random), we show that the capacity-achieving input vector is circular for a broad range of MIMO channels (including coherent and noncoherent scenarios). Finally, we investigate the situation of an improper and Gaussian distributed noise vector. We compute both capacity and capacity-achieving input vector and show that improperness increases capacity, provided that the complementary covariance matrix is exploited. Otherwise, a capacity loss occurs, for which we derive an explicit expression.

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