Noncoherent SIMO Pre-Log via Resolution of Singularities
Paper in proceeding, 2011

We establish a lower bound on the noncoherent capacity pre-log of a temporally correlated Rayleigh block-fading single-input multiple-output (SIMO) channel. Our result holds for arbitrary rank Q of the channel correlation matrix, arbitrary block-length L > Q, and arbitrary number of receive antennas R, and includes the result in Morgenshtern et al. (2010) as a special case. It is well known that the capacity pre-log for this channel in the single-input single-output (SISO) case is given by 1-Q/L, where Q/L is the penalty incurred by channel uncertainty. Our result reveals that this penalty can be reduced to 1/L by adding only one receive antenna, provided that L il larger or equal to 2Q - 1 and the channel correlation matrix satisfies mild technical conditions. The main technical tool used to prove our result is Hironaka's celebrated theorem on resolution of singularities in algebraic geometry.

Author

Erwin Riegler

Veniamin I. Morgenshtern

Giuseppe Durisi

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Shaowei Lin

Bernd Sturmfels

Helmut Bölcskei

International Symposium on Information Theory, Aug. 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia

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10/7/2017