On the Low SNR Capacity of Maximum Ratio Combining over Rician Fading Channels with Full Channel State Information

by Fatma Benkhelifa, Zouheir Rezki, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Manuscripts Year: 2013

Bibliography

Fatma Benkhelifa, Zouheir Rezki, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, On the Low SNR Capacity of Maximum Ratio Combining over Rician Fading Channels with Full Channel State Information, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol.2, no.2, pp.191,194, April 2013.

Abstract

In this letter, we study the ergodic capacity of a maximum ratio combining (MRC) Rician fading channel with full channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and at the receiver. We focus on the low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) regime and we show that the capacity scales as LΩ/ K L SNR × log( 1 /SNR ) ,where Ω is the expected channel gain per branch, K is the Rician fading factor, and L is the number of  diversity branches. We show that one-bit CSI feedback at the transmitter is enough to achieve this capacity using an on-off power control scheme. Our framework

can be seen as a generalization of recently established results regarding the fading-channels capacity characterization in the low-SNR regime.

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2013

Keywords

Ergodic capacity MRC Rician fading channel on-o ff signaling