Title :
Bandwidth scaling for fading channels
Author :
Gallager, R. ; Mèdard, M.
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Inf. & Decision Syst., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
29 Jun-4 Jul 1997
Abstract :
The issue of bandwidth scaling has always caused some confusion for channels subject to additive white Gaussian noise plus multipath fading. On the one hand, there is an old result saying that the capacity of the channel (under a power constraint but no bandwidth constraint) is the same as the infinite bandwidth capacity of the non-fading additive noise channel with the same average received power as the fading channel. On the other hand, it appears intuitively that when a CDMA system is spread too widely in bandwidth, it becomes increasingly difficult for a RAKE receiver to measure the channel and correspondingly difficult for detection to take place. Here the authors look at a particularly simple model of the fading channel, but the methodology appears to be extendable to more general models
Keywords :
Gaussian channels; channel capacity; code division multiple access; fading; multipath channels; CDMA system; additive white Gaussian noise; bandwidth scaling; channel capacity; fading channels; multipath fading; Additive noise; Additive white noise; Bandwidth; Channel capacity; Fading; Frequency; Multiaccess communication; Mutual information; Tin; Upper bound;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory. 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Ulm
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3956-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1997.613408