Power Allocation for Discrete-Input Non-Ergodic Block-Fading Channels

Nguyen, Khoa D.; Fabregas, Albert Guillen i; Rasmussen, Lars K.

Power Allocation for Discrete-Input Non-Ergodic Block-Fading Channels

Authors

Nguyen, Khoa D.

Fabregas, Albert Guillen i

Rasmussen, Lars K.

Description

We consider power allocation algorithms for fixed-rate transmission over Nakagami-m non-ergodic block-fading channels with perfect transmitter and receiver channel state information and discrete input signal constellations under both short- and long-term power constraints. Optimal power allocation schemes are shown to be direct applications of previous results in the literature. We show that the SNR exponent of the optimal short-term scheme is given by the Singleton bound. We also illustrate the significant gains available by employing long-term power constraints. Due to the nature of the expressions involved, the complexity of optimal schemes may be prohibitive for system implementation. We propose simple sub-optimal power allocation schemes whose outage probability performance is very close to the minimum outage probability obtained by optimal schemes.
6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Information Theory Workshop 2007