Title :
Approaching the ergodic capacity with lattice coding
Author :
Hindy, Ahmed ; Nosratinia, Aria
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
Abstract :
It is known that lattice coding can achieve the capacity of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. This paper addresses the performance of lattice codes in the ergodic fading channel. Using nested lattice codes and ambiguity decoding, we show that the rates achieved by lattice coding and decoding are within a constant gap of the capacity of the ergodic channel at moderate and high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR), and within a gap that decreases quadratically with the SNR for the low SNR regime.
Keywords :
AWGN channels; channel capacity; channel coding; decoding; fading channels; AWGN channel capacity; SNR; additive white Gaussian noise channel capacity; ambiguity decoding; ergodic fading channel capacity; lattice coding; nested lattice codes; signal-to-noise-ratio; Decoding; Encoding; Lattices; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitters; Vectors; Channel capacity; ergodic channel; minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimation; nested lattice codes;
Conference_Titel :
Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037019