Orthogonal space–time block coding over dirty paper channel: Outage capacity analysis

Abstract

We analytically prove that the outage capacity of the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) which is affected by interference, that is non-causally available as well as the channel state information (CSI) for all users at the transmitter, has the free interference outage capacity. Specifically, Orthogonal space–time block coding (O-STBC) with two transmit antennas and arbitrary number of receive antennas is used for transmission and reception. We modify the random variable U which was proposed by Costa (1983) to account for the availability of the CSI at both the transmitter and receiver. Further, we use lattice dirty paper coding (DPC) to show that an interference free channel capacity can be achieved in the MIMO-OSTBC system. First, we derive the equivalent noise seen by the receiver using an equivalent lattice based dirty paper code. Then the optimal value of the power inflation factor is derived. Next, the channel capacity of the equivalent modulo lattice channel is computed. Finally, performance results in the case of various number of receive antennas are presented and showed that significant reduction in frame error probabilities can be obtained over a system that uses no interference cancellation.