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Normal approximations for fading channels

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ISBN: 978-1-5386-0579-0
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2018-05-24
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Capacity and outage capacity characterize the maximum coding rate at which reliable communication is feasible when there are no constraints on the packet length. Evaluated for fading channels, they are important performance benchmarks for wireless communication systems. However, the latency of a communication system is proportional to the length of the packets it exchanges, so assuming that there are no constraints on the packet length may be overly optimistic for communication systems with stringent latency constraints. Recently, there has been great interest within the information theory community in characterizing the maximum coding rate for short packet lengths. Research on this topic is often concerned with asymptotic expansions of the coding rate with respect to the packet length, which then give rise to normal approximations. In this paper, we review existing normal approximations for single-antenna Rayleigh block-fading channels and compare them with the high-SNR normal approximation we presented at the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (Lancho, Koch, and Durisi, 2017). We further discuss how these normal approx- imations may help to assess the performance of communication protocols.
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Proceeding of: 52nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2018)
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Fading channels, Encoding, Coherence, Signal to noise ratio, Receivers, Dispersion, Wireless communication
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52nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2018), 21-23 March 2018, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. [Proceedings], 6 pag.