Fundamental capacity limits on compact MIMO-OFDM systems

We undertake an information-theoretic approach to characterize the optimal design of a broadband multi-antenna system in the presence of mutual coupling. It was shown recently that mutual coupling effectively decomposes otherwise spectrally-identical spatial modes of an antenna array into spectrally non-identical eigen-modes. We shall use Shannon´s information theory and Fano´s broadband matching theory to develop optimal transceiver designs for a compact broadband MIMO system. It will be shown that in the presence of channel state information, optimal transmit power allocation and matching characteristic follow a mutual space-frequency water-pouring solution.