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On the Outage Capacity of Orthogonal Space-time Block Codes Over Multi-cluster Scattering MIMO Channels

Information Theory 2014-04-07 v2 math.IT

Abstract

Multiple cluster scattering MIMO channel is a useful model for pico-cellular MIMO networks. In this paper, orthogonal space-time block coded transmission over such a channel is considered, where the effective channel equals the product of n complex Gaussian matrices. A simple and accurate closed-form approximation to the channel outage capacity has been derived in this setting. The result is valid for an arbitrary number of clusters n-1 of scatterers and an arbitrary antenna configuration. Numerical results are provided to study the relative outage performance between the multi-cluster and the Rayleigh-fading MIMO channels for which n=1.

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@article{arxiv.1403.5571,
  title  = {On the Outage Capacity of Orthogonal Space-time Block Codes Over Multi-cluster Scattering MIMO Channels},
  author = {Lu Wei and Zhong Zheng and Jukka Corander and Giorgio Taricco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5571},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Added references; changes made in Section 3-A