Benefits of coding in a noncoherent massive SIMO system

Brian Knott, Mainak Chowdhury, Alexandros Manolakos, Andrea J. Goldsmith

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Abstract

We consider one single antenna transmitter communicating with a receiver with a large number of antennas. Motivated by the optimal noncoherent detector in a Rayleigh fading channel, we propose a noncoherent energy-based communication scheme that does not require knowledge of instantaneous CSI (channel state information) at either the transmitter or the receiver; it uses only the statistics of the channel and noise. We explore the impact of coding to reduce the number of antennas needed for this system to achieve a given performance target. In particular, random coding error exponents for this system are used to determine tradeoff curves between the number of antennas and the blocklengths associated with a guaranteed performance target. However, since random codes have exponentially increasing decoding complexity with increasing blocklength, we also consider a simplified codebook design that has significantly lower encoding and decoding complexity. Simulations suggest that for small blocklengths, the performance of this simplified codebook is competitive with random coding constructions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2350-2355
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467364324
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 9 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: Jun 8 2015Jun 12 2015

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume2015-September
ISSN (Print)1550-3607

Other

OtherIEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period6/8/156/12/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Coding
  • Error exponents
  • Massive MIMO
  • Noncoherent communication

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