On the existence of the Mazo-limit on MIMO channels

Summary, in English

Mazo, in 1975, showed that the signaling rate of a linear modulation can

be significantly higher than the maximum rate for orthogonal signaling

without any loss of minimum square Euclidean distance. In subsequent

literature the highest such rate is referred to as the Mazo-limit. In this

letter we ask whether there exists a Mazo-limit also on

MIMO channels. The answer is yes, but it applies to the largest

pairwise error probability rather than to minimum square Euclidean distance. Moreover, it

occurs at exactly the same rate as in the AWGN case. As a special case

results for single-input single-output fading channels are obtained.

• Author: Fredrik Rusek
• Department/s: Department of Electrical and Information Technology
• Publishing year: 2009
• Language: English
• Pages: 1118-1121
• Publication/Series: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 3
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2009.080193
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Topic: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Status: Published
• Research group: Telecommunication Theory
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1536-1276