Title :
Sphere packing in the Grassmann manifold: a geometric approach to the noncoherent multi-antenna channel
Author :
Zheng, Lizhong ; Tse, David N C
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we study the capacity of multi-antenna channel where the fading coefficients are unknown to either transmitter or receiver. The high SNR channel capacity is computed, and a geometric interpretation of sphere packing in the Grassmann manifold is given
Keywords :
antenna arrays; antenna theory; channel capacity; fading channels; land mobile radio; time-varying channels; Grassmann manifold; SNR channel capacity; fading coefficients; geometric approach; geometric interpretation; noncoherent multi-antenna channel; sphere packing; AWGN channels; Antennas and propagation; Channel capacity; Chromium; Fading; Mobile communication; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sorrento
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5857-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.2000.866662
