Achievable Rate Regions for Orthogonally Multiplexed MIMO Broadcast Channels with Multi-Dimensional Modulation

Marthe KASSOUF, Harry LEIB

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DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2010.31001                

Abstract

In this work, we consider a multi-antenna channel with orthogonally multiplexed non-cooperative users, and present its achievable information rate regions with and without channel knowledge at the transmitter. With an informed transmitter, we maximize the rate for each user. With an uninformed transmitter, we consider the optimal power allocation that causes the fastest convergence to zero of the fraction of channels whose mutual information is less than any given rate as the transmitter channel knowledge converges to zero. We assume a deterministic space and time dispersive multipath channel with multiple transmit and receive antennas, generating an orthogonally multiplexed Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) broadcast system. Under limited transmit power; we consider different user specific space-time modulation formats that represent assignments of signal dimensions to transmit antennas. For the two-user orthogonally multiplexed MIMO broadcast channels, the achievable rate regions, with and without transmitter channel knowledge, evolve from a triangular region at low SNR to a rectangular region at high SNR. We also investigate the maximum sum rate for these regions and derive the associated power allocations at low and high SNR. Furthermore, we present numerical results for a two-user system that illustrate the effects of channel knowledge at the transmitter, the multi-dimensional space-time modulation format and features of the multipath channel.

Keywords

MIMO Channels, Broadcast Systems, Capacity Region, Space-Time Coding

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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