Lattice coding and decoding achieve the optimal diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of MIMO channels

This paper considers communication over coherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) flat-fading channels where the channel is only known at the receiver. For this setting, we introduce the class of LAttice Space-Time (LAST) codes. We show that these codes achieve the optimal diversity-multiplexin...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on information theory 2004-06, Vol.50 (6), p.968-985
Main Authors: El Gamal, H., Caire, G., Damen, M.O.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
AWGN
Channels
Codes
Coding
Construction costs
Decision feedback equalizers
Decoding
Delay
Euclidean distance
Gaussian
Information theory
Lattice theory
Lattices
Mean square errors
MIMO
Optimization
Signal design
Signal to noise ratio
Space time codes
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Summary:This paper considers communication over coherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) flat-fading channels where the channel is only known at the receiver. For this setting, we introduce the class of LAttice Space-Time (LAST) codes. We show that these codes achieve the optimal diversity-multiplexing tradeoff defined by Zheng and Tse under generalized minimum Euclidean distance lattice decoding. Our scheme is based on a generalization of Erez and Zamir mod-Lambda scheme to the MIMO case. In our construction the scalar "scaling" of Erez-Zamir and Costa Gaussian "dirty-paper" schemes is replaced by the minimum mean-square error generalized decision-feedback equalizer (MMSE-GDFE). This result settles the open problem posed by Zheng and Tse on the construction of explicit coding and decoding schemes that achieve the optimal diversity-multiplexing tradeoff. Moreover, our results shed more light on the structure of optimal coding/decoding techniques in delay-limited MIMO channels, and hence, open the door for novel approaches for space-time code constructions. In particular, 1) we show that MMSE-GDFE plays a fundamental role in approaching the limits of delay-limited MIMO channels in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, unlike the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel case and 2) our random coding arguments represent a major departure from traditional space-time code designs based on the rank and/or mutual information design criteria.
ISSN:0018-9448
1557-9654
DOI:10.1109/TIT.2004.828067