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Wireless Channel Capacity Explained

Chapter 4 discusses the capacity of wireless channels, emphasizing the importance of determining maximum data rates for effective communication. It highlights Claude Shannon's pioneering work on channel capacity and mutual information, which established the theoretical limits of data transmission with low error probabilities. The chapter also addresses the specific case of the AWGN channel, where Gaussian input distribution maximizes channel capacity.

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Wireless Channel Capacity Explained

Chapter 4 discusses the capacity of wireless channels, emphasizing the importance of determining maximum data rates for effective communication. It highlights Claude Shannon's pioneering work on channel capacity and mutual information, which established the theoretical limits of data transmission with low error probabilities. The chapter also addresses the specific case of the AWGN channel, where Gaussian input distribution maximizes channel capacity.

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Ch.4

Capacity of Wireless Channels


The growing demand for wireless communication makes it important to determine the capacity limits
of the underlying channels for these systems. These capacity limits dictate the maximum data rates
that can be transmitted over wireless channels with asymptotically small error probability, assuming
no constraints on delay or complexity of the encoder and decoder. The mathematical theory of
communication underlying channel capacity was pioneered by Claude Shannon in the late 1940s. This
theory is based on the notion of mutual information between the input and output of a channel . In
particular, Shannon defined channel capacity as the channel’s mutual information maximized over all
possible input distributions. The significance of this mathematical construct was Shannon’s coding
theorem and its converse. The coding theorem proved that a code did exist that could achieve a data
rate close to capacity with negligible probability of error. The converse proved that any data rate
higher than capacity could not be achieved without an error probability bounded away from zero.
Shannon’s ideas were quite revolutionary at the time: the high data rates he predicted for telephone
channels, and his notion that coding could reduce error probability without reducing data rate or
causing bandwidth expansion. In time, sophisticated modulation and coding technology validated
Shannon’s theory and so, on telephone lines today, we achieve datarates very close to Shannon
capacity with very low probability of error.

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4.1 Capacity in AWGN

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For the AWGN channel, the sum in (4.6) becomes an integral over continuous alphabets and the
maximizing input distribution is Gaussian, which results in the channel capacity given by (4.1). For
channels with memory, mutual information and channel capacity are defined relative to input and
output sequences x n and y n.

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