Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2009-08-17
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY, VOL. 56, NO. 12, DECEMBER 2010
Computer Science
Information Theory
accepted for IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, 2010
Scientific paper
10.1109/TIT.2010.2081150
We examine the capacity of beamforming over a single-user, multi-antenna link taking into account the overhead due to channel estimation and limited feedback of channel state information. Multi-input single-output (MISO) and multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channels are considered subject to block Rayleigh fading. Each coherence block contains $L$ symbols, and is spanned by $T$ training symbols, $B$ feedback bits, and the data symbols. The training symbols are used to obtain a Minimum Mean Squared Error estimate of the channel matrix. Given this estimate, the receiver selects a transmit beamforming vector from a codebook containing $2^B$ {\em i.i.d.} random vectors, and sends the corresponding $B$ bits back to the transmitter. We derive bounds on the beamforming capacity for MISO and MIMO channels and characterize the optimal (rate-maximizing) training and feedback overhead ($T$ and $B$) as $L$ and the number of transmit antennas $N_t$ both become large. The optimal $N_t$ is limited by the coherence time, and increases as $L/\log L$. For the MISO channel the optimal $T/L$ and $B/L$ (fractional overhead due to training and feedback) are asymptotically the same, and tend to zero at the rate $1/\log N_t$. For the MIMO channel the optimal feedback overhead $B/L$ tends to zero faster (as $1/\log^2 N_t$).
Honig Michael L.
Santipach Wiroonsak
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