On Multipath Fading Channels at High SNR

Details On Multipath Fading Channels at High SNR On Multipath Fading Channels at High SNR

2009-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0521v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Scientific paper

This work studies the capacity of multipath fading channels. A noncoherent channel model is considered, where neither the transmitter nor the receiver is cognizant of the realization of the path gains, but both are cognizant of their statistics. It is shown that if the delay spread is large in the sense that the variances of the path gains decay exponentially or slower, then capacity is bounded in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). For such channels, capacity does not tend to infinity as the SNR tends to infinity. In contrast, if the variances of the path gains decay faster than exponentially, then capacity is unbounded in the SNR. It is further demonstrated that if the number of paths is finite, then at high SNR capacity grows double-logarithmically with the SNR, and the capacity pre-loglog, defined as the limiting ratio of capacity to log(log(SNR)) as SNR tends to infinity, is 1 irrespective of the number of paths.

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