• DocumentCode
    2601914
  • Title

    The pre-log of Gaussian broadcast with feedback can be two

  • Author

    Gastpar, Michael ; Wigger, Michele A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of EECS, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    Jan. 27 2008-Feb. 1 2008
  • Firstpage
    545
  • Lastpage
    546
  • Abstract
    A generic intuition says that the pre-log, or multi-plexing gain, cannot be larger than the minimum of the number of transmit and receive dimensions. This suggests that for the scalar broadcast channel, the pre-log cannot exceed one. By contrast, in this note, we show that when the noises are anti-correlated and feedback is present, then a pre-log of two can be attained. In other words, in this special case, in the limit of high SNR, the scalar Gaussian broadcast channel turns into two parallel AWGN channels. Achievability is established via a coding strategy due to Schalkwijk, Kailath, and Ozarow.
  • Keywords
    AWGN channels; broadcast channels; channel coding; AWGN channels; Gaussian broadcast pre-log; coding strategy; multiplexing gain; AWGN channels; Additive white noise; Broadcasting; Channel capacity; Gaussian noise; Memoryless systems; Noise figure; Output feedback; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory and Applications Workshop, 2008
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2670-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITA.2008.4601032
  • Filename
    4601032