New Capacity Results for Fading Gaussian Multiuser Channels With Statistical CSIT

Abstract

In this paper, fast fading Gaussian multiuser channels are considered. If the channel state information (CSI) is perfectly known to the transmitter, capacities have been derived for many cases in which the channels satisfy certain information-theoretic orders such as degradedness, or strong/very strong interference. We study the case when only the statistics of the CSI are known at the transmitter, which is an open problem in general. The main contributions of this paper are the following: First, we derive a sufficient condition to construct equivalent (having the same capacity region as the original channel) degraded Gaussian broadcast channels, which is based on the marginal distributions of the channel gains. To achieve this goal, we leverage three schemes: coupling, maximal coupling, and copulas, in addition to the same marginal property. The underlying idea of all schemes is to obtain an equivalent channel by changing the joint distribution in such a way that it satisfies a certain information-theoretic order while ensuring that the marginal distributions of the channels to different users are not changed. The construction of this equivalent multiuser channel allows us to directly apply existing capacity results. We then further derive the capacity regions of Gaussian interference channels with strong and very strong interferences, and also the secrecy capacity of Gaussian wiretap channels, while in all cases, the transmitters know only the statistics of the channels. Several practical examples such as Rayleigh fading and Nakagami- ${m}$ fading illustrate the applicability of the derived results.