Multiuser Channels with Statistical CSI at the Transmitter: Fading Channel Alignments and Stochastic Orders, an Overview

Abstract

Abstract:In this overview paper, we introduce an application of stochastic orders in wireless communications. In particular, we show how to use stochastic orders to investigate the ergodic capacity results for fast fading Gaussian memoryless multiuser channels when only the statistics of the channel state information are known at the transmitters (CSIT). In general, the characterization of the capacity region of multiuser channels with only statistical CSIT is open. To attain our goal, in this work we resort to classifying the random channels through their probability distributions by which we can obtain the capacity results. To be more precise, we derive sufficient conditions to attain some information theoretic channel orders such as degraded and very strong interference by exploiting the usual stochastic order and exploiting the same marginal property. After that, we apply the developed scheme to Gaussian interference channels and Gaussian broadcast channels. We also extend the framework to channels with multiple antennas. Possible scenarios for channel enhancement under statistical CSIT are also discussed. Several practical examples such as Rayleigh fading and Nakagami-m fading, etc., illustrate the application of the derived results.

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