On Gaussian MIMO broadcast channels with common and private messages

Abstract

We study the Gaussian multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel with common and private messages. We first obtain an outer bound for the capacity region of the two-user discrete memoryless broadcast channel with common and private messages. We next show that if jointly Gaussian random variables are sufficient to evaluate this outer bound for the Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel, the dirty-paper coding (DPC) region is the capacity region of the Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel with common and private messages. However, we can evaluate only a loosened version of this outer bound, which yields the result that extending the DPC region in the common message rate direction by a fixed amount is an outer bound for the capacity region of the Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel with common and private messages. However, this fixed amount, i.e., the gap, is not finite for all channels. We derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for this gap to be finite.