Capacity and Mutual Information of Wideband Multipath Fading Channels：（能力和宽带多径衰落信道的互信息）.pdfVIP

1384 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY, VOL. 46, NO. 4, JULY 2000 Capacity and Mutual Information of Wideband Multipath Fading Channels I. Emre Telatar, Member, IEEE, and David N. C. Tse, Member, IEEE Abstract—In this paper we will investigate the capacity and mu- To answer these questions, we study in this paper the capacity tual information of a broadband fading channel consisting of a and mutual information of multipath fading channels without finite number of time-varying paths. We will show that the ca- the a priori assumption of knowledge of the channel at the re- pacity of the channel in the wideband limit is the same as that of a wideband Gaussian channel with the same average received ceiver. We consider a channel having a finite number of paths power. However, the input signals needed to achieve the capacity and a large transmission bandwidth . To state the results we must be “peaky” in time or frequency. In particular, we show that introduce the notion of the number of resolvable paths : This if white-like signals are used instead (as is common in spread-spec- is the number of paths one would see if one could only differ- trum systems), the mutual information is inversely proportional to entiate paths whose delays differ by more than . The fol- ~ the number of resolvable paths with energy spread out, and in lowing three results are presented in this paper: fact approaches 0 as the number of paths gets large. This is true even when the paths are assumed to be tracked perfectly at the