Title
Capacity Pre-Log of Noncoherent SIMO Channels Via Hironaka's Theorem
Abstract
We find the capacity pre-log of a temporally correlated Rayleigh block-fading single-input multiple-output (SIMO) channel in the noncoherent setting. It is well known that for block-length $L$ and rank of the channel covariance matrix equal to $Q$, the capacity pre-log in the single-input single-output (SISO) case is given by $1-Q/L$ . Here, $Q/L$ can be interpreted as the pre-log penalty incurred by channel uncertainty. Our main result reveals that, by adding only one receive antenna, this penalty can be reduced to $1/L$ and can, hence, be made to vanish for the block-length $L\to\infty$ , even if $Q/L$ remains constant as $L\to\infty$ . Intuitively, even though the SISO channels between the transmit antenna and the two receive antennas are statistically independent, the transmit signal induces enough statistical dependence between the corresponding receive signals for the second receive antenna to be able to resolve the uncertainty associated with the first receive antenna's channel and thereby make the overall system appear coherent. The proof of our main theorem is based on a deep result from algebraic geometry known as Hironaka's Theorem on the Resolution of Singularities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TIT.2013.2251394
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Keywords
DocType
Volume
signal to noise ratio,fading,algebraic geometry,vectors,covariance matrix,mathematical model,uncertainty
Journal
59
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0018-9448
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.63
10
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Veniamin I. Morgenshtern1657.74
Erwin Riegler215114.85
Wei Yang316113.00
Giuseppe Durisi471454.82
Shaowei Lin531916.43
Bernd Sturmfels6926136.85
Helmut Bölcskei796965.85