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The Distribution of Foschini's Lower Bound for Channel Capacity

Part of: Distribution theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Christopher S. Withers  and
Saralees Nadarajah
Christopher S. Withers*
Affiliation:
Industrial Research Limited
Saralees Nadarajah*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
*
∗ Postal address: Applied Mathematics Group, Industrial Research Limited, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
∗∗ Postal address: School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. Email address: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Foschini gave a lower bound for the channel capacity of an N-transmit M-receive antenna system in a Raleigh fading environment with independence at both transmitters and receivers. We show that this bound is approximately normal.

Keywords

Antennacapacitylower boundtransmit receive

MSC classification

Primary: 62E17: Approximations to distributions (nonasymptotic)
Secondary: 62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory
Type
General Applied Probability
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 260 - 269
Copyright
© Applied Probability Trust 

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