On the Distribution of SINR for MMSE MIMO Systems

Abstract

While the performance analysis of linear zero-forcing (ZF) and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) receivers has received much attention, there has been no exact closed-form distribution of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) for MMSE multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the arbitrary fading environments for over the past 20 years. In this paper, an exact and general distribution of SINR for MMSE MIMO systems is presented under uncorrelated Rayleigh fading environments. We start our analysis by finding regular patterns from the probability density function (PDF) of SINR for small dimensions, and using the regular patterns, we extend the PDF to arbitrary dimensions. From the exact and general PDF of SINR for MMSE MIMO systems, the cumulative distribution function and the moment-generating function are derived in terms of the incomplete gamma function and the confluent hypergeometric function of the second kind, respectively. As applications, the error probability, outage probability, and achievable sum rate are investigated by using the distribution of SINR for MMSE MIMO systems. Most notably, the achievable sum rates for ZF and MMSE MIMO systems are defined by using the Meijer $G$ -function, which are the first closed-form expressions in the literature.