On the outage capacity of the block fading channel at low-power regime

Zouheir Rezki, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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Abstract

Outage performance of the M-block fading with additive white Gaussian noise (BF-AWGN) is investigated at low-power regime. We consider delay-constrained constant-rate communications with perfect channel state information (CSI) at both the transmitter and the receiver (CSI-TR), under a short-term power constraint. We show that selection diversity that allocates all the power to the strongest block is asymptotically optimal. Then, we provide a simple characterization of the outage probability in the regime of interest. We quantify the reward due to CSI-TR over the constant-rate constant-power scheme and show that this reward increases with the delay constraint. For instance, for Rayleigh fading, we find that a power gain up to 4.3 dB is achievable. © 2014 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages2894-2898
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781479951864
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2014

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