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One-Bit Quantizers for Fading Channels

Information Theory 2011-12-23 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We study channel capacity when a one-bit quantizer is employed at the output of the discrete-time average-power-limited Rayleigh-fading channel. We focus on the low signal-to-noise ratio regime, where communication at very low spectral efficiencies takes place, as in Spread Spectrum and Ultra-Wideband communications. We demonstrate that, in this regime, the best one-bit quantizer does not reduce the asymptotic capacity of the coherent channel, but it does reduce that of the noncoherent channel.

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@article{arxiv.1112.5314,
  title  = {One-Bit Quantizers for Fading Channels},
  author = {Tobias Koch and Amos Lapidoth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5314},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages. To be presented at the 2012 International Zurich Seminar on Communications (IZS)

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