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How to Achieve the Optimal DMT of Selective Fading MIMO Channels?

Information Theory 2010-10-14 v1 math.IT

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a particular class of selective fading channel corresponding to a channel that is selective either in time or in frequency. For this class of channel, we propose a systematic way to achieve the optimal DMT derived in Coronel and B\"olcskei, IEEE ISIT, 2007 by extending the non-vanishing determinant (NVD) criterion to the selective channel case. A new code construction based on split NVD parallel codes is then proposed to satisfy the NVD parallel criterion. This result is of significant interest not only in its own right, but also because it settles a long-standing debate in the literature related to the optimal DMT of selective fading channels.

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@article{arxiv.1010.2686,
  title  = {How to Achieve the Optimal DMT of Selective Fading MIMO Channels?},
  author = {Lina Mroueh and Jean-Claude Belfiore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.2686},
  year   = {2010}
}

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22 pages, 6 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory