On the Diversity Gain in MIMO Channels with Joint Rate and Power Control Based on Noisy CSITR

Abstract

We analyze the impact of imperfect channel state information at the transmitter and receiver (CSITR) on the achievable diversity gain in multi-input multi-output (MIMO) fading channels with joint rate and power control. With rate control only, we consider the system with and without a minimum spatial multiplexing gain constraint, respectively. With joint rate and power control, we show that the achievable diversity gain can be improved significantly. The conducted analysis adopts the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff framework and uses the notions of diversity gain and multiplexing gain to study the impact of noisy CSITR in MIMO fading channels.