TY - GEN
T1 - Bandwidth occupancy of non-coherent wideband fading channels
AU - Gómez-Cuba, Felipe
AU - Du, Jinfeng
AU - Médard, Muriel
AU - Erkip, Elza
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/9/28
Y1 - 2015/9/28
N2 - Peaky and non-peaky signaling schemes have long been considered species apart in non-coherent wideband fading channels, as the first approaches asymptotically the linear-in-power capacity of a wideband AWGN channel with the same SNR, whereas the second reaches a nearly power-limited peak rate at some finite critical bandwidth and then falls to zero as bandwidth grows to infinity. In this paper it is shown that this distinction is in fact an artifact of the limited attention paid in the past to the product between the bandwidth and the fraction of time it is in use. This fundamental quantity, that is termed bandwidth occupancy, measures average bandwidth usage over time. The two types of signaling in the literature are harmonized to show that, for any type of signals, there is a fundamental limit - a critical bandwidth occupancy. All signaling schemes with the same bandwidth occupancy approach the capacity of wideband AWGN channels with the same asymptotic behavior as the bandwidth occupancy grows to its critical value. For a bandwidth occupancy above the critical, rate decreases to zero as the bandwidth occupancy goes to infinity.
AB - Peaky and non-peaky signaling schemes have long been considered species apart in non-coherent wideband fading channels, as the first approaches asymptotically the linear-in-power capacity of a wideband AWGN channel with the same SNR, whereas the second reaches a nearly power-limited peak rate at some finite critical bandwidth and then falls to zero as bandwidth grows to infinity. In this paper it is shown that this distinction is in fact an artifact of the limited attention paid in the past to the product between the bandwidth and the fraction of time it is in use. This fundamental quantity, that is termed bandwidth occupancy, measures average bandwidth usage over time. The two types of signaling in the literature are harmonized to show that, for any type of signals, there is a fundamental limit - a critical bandwidth occupancy. All signaling schemes with the same bandwidth occupancy approach the capacity of wideband AWGN channels with the same asymptotic behavior as the bandwidth occupancy grows to its critical value. For a bandwidth occupancy above the critical, rate decreases to zero as the bandwidth occupancy goes to infinity.
KW - Wideband regime
KW - bandwidth occupancy
KW - non-coherent fading channel
KW - peaky signals
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U2 - 10.1109/ISIT.2015.7282876
DO - 10.1109/ISIT.2015.7282876
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84969792518
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
SP - 2351
EP - 2355
BT - Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2015
Y2 - 14 June 2015 through 19 June 2015
ER -