Asymptotic High-SNR Capacity of MISO Optical Intensity Channels

Stefan M Moser (1) , Ligong Wang (2) , Michèle Wigger (3, 4, 5)

1 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
2 ETIS - UMR 8051 - Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes
3 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information
4 COMELEC - Département Communications & Electronique
5 COMNUM - Communications Numériques

This paper derives the asymptotic capacity for the multiple-input single-output free-space optical intensity channel in the regime of high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The asymptotic result is proven via upper and lower bounds on capacity at finite SNR.

Domaines: Théorie de l'information et codage [math.IT]

Stefan M Moser, Ligong Wang, Michèle Wigger. Asymptotic High-SNR Capacity of MISO Optical Intensity Channels. 2017 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2017), Nov 2017, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. ⟨10.1109/ITW.2017.8277933⟩. ⟨hal-01700471⟩