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This paper studies the capacity of the peak-and-average-power-limited Gaussian channel when its output is quantized using a dithered, infinite-level, uniform quantizer of step size $\Delta$. It is shown that the capacity of this channel…
This paper studies the ergodic capacity of time- and frequency-selective multipath fading channels in the ultrawideband (UWB) regime when training signals are used for channel estimation at the receiver. Motivated by recent measurement…
Wideband communications are impossible with signals that are spread over a very large band and are transmitted over multipath channels unknown ahead of time. This work exploits the I-mmse connection to bound the achievable data-rate of…
A framework is developed for analyzing capacity gains from user cooperation in slow fading wireless networks when the number of nodes (network size) is large. The framework is illustrated for the case of a simple multipath-rich Rayleigh…
Capacity scaling laws are analyzed in an underwater acoustic network with $n$ regularly located nodes on a square, in which both bandwidth and received signal power can be limited significantly. A narrow-band model is assumed where the…
We consider the problem of multiple-input single-output Broadcast Channels with Rayleigh fading where the transmitter has access to delayed knowledge of the channel state information. We first characterize the capacity region of this…
We investigate the effect of imperfect feedback on the \epsilon-outage capacity of incremental relaying in the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. We show that imperfect feedback leads to a rescaling of the pre-log factor (comparable to…
This work introduces capacity limits for molecular timing (MT) channels, where information is modulated in the release timing of small information particles, and decoded from the time of arrivals at the receiver. It is shown that the random…
This paper re-examines the well-known fundamental tradeoffs between rate and reliability for the multi-antenna, block Rayleigh fading channel in the high signal to noise ratio (SNR) regime when (i) the transmitter has access to (noiseless)…
Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) presents a compact framework to compare various MIMO systems and channels in terms of the two main advantages they provide (i.e. high data rate and/or low error rate). This tradeoff was characterized…
This paper studies the ergodic capacity of wideband multipath channels with limited feedback. Our work builds on recent results that have established the possibility of significant capacity gains in the wideband/low-SNR regime when there is…
We consider the wireless Rayleigh fading relay channel with finite complex input constellations. Assuming global knowledge of the channel state information and perfect synchronization, upper and lower bounds on the achievable rate, for the…
The capacity of peak-power limited, single-antenna, noncoherent, flat-fading channels with memory is considered. The emphasis is on the capacity pre-log, i.e., on the limiting ratio of channel capacity to the logarithm of the…
In this paper, we obtain asymptotic expressions for the ergodic capacity of the keyhole multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in independent and identically distributed Nakagami-$m$ fading…
Cognitive radio technology is an innovative radio design concept which aims to increase spectrum utilization by exploiting unused spectrum in dynamically changing environments. By extending previous results, we investigate the capacity…
Multipath communication not only allows improved throughput but can also be used to leverage different path characteristics to best fulfill each application's objective. In particular, certain delay-sensitive applications, such as real time…
Multilayer networks describe well many real interconnected communication and transportation systems, ranging from computer networks to multimodal mobility infrastructures. Here, we introduce a model in which the nodes have a limited…
The underwater acoustic channel is characterized by a path loss that depends not only on the transmission distance, but also on the signal frequency. Signals transmitted from one user to another over a distance $l$ are subject to a power…
In this paper, the effects of interference on composite fading environments, where multipath fading coexists with shadowing, are investigated. Based on some mathematical convenient expressions for the sum of squared…
We propose a technique to derive upper bounds on Gallager's cost-constrained random coding exponent function. Applying this technique to the non-coherent peak-power or average-power limited discrete time memoryless Ricean fading channel, we…