On the beamforming optimality range in TIMO channels with common and individual input power constraints

Saad Al-Ahmadi*, Halim Yanikomeroglu

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Abstract

In this letter, the effect of the input power constraint on the beamforming optimality range in Gaussian two-input multiple-output (TIMO) channels is investigated. The obtained expressions, using standard Lagrangian formulation, determine explicitly the range of the input signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for which beamforming (rank-1 signaling) is optimal for TIMO channels for both the common power constraint and the individual power constraint cases. Moreover, the obtained results are extended to random TIMO channels, with channel state information at the receiver only, using the Jensen's upper bound on the mutual information.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5682544
Pages (from-to)648-651
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume59
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2011

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Paper approved by D. L. Goeckel, the Editor for Space-Time and OFDM of the IEEE Communications Society. Manuscript received February 19, 2009; revised December 15, 2009 and March 24, 2010. S. Al-Ahmadi’s work was supported by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. S. Al-Ahmadi is currently with the Department of Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia (e-mail: [email protected]). H. Yanikomeroglu is with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (e-mail: [email protected]). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TCOMM.2011.010411.090022

Keywords

  • MIMO channels
  • beamforming
  • common power constraint
  • individual power constraints
  • input covariance matrix
  • mutual information

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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