The Role of Correlation in the Doubly Dirty Fading MAC With Side Information at the Transmitters

Abstract

We investigate the impact of fading correlation on the performance of the doubly dirty fading multiple access channel (MAC) with non-causally known side information at transmitters. Using Copula theory, we derive closed-form expressions for the outage probability (OP) and the coverage region under positive/negative dependence conditions. We show that a positive dependence structure between the fading channel coefficients is beneficial for the system performance, as it improves the OP and extends the coverage region compared to the case of independent fading. Conversely, a negative dependence structure has a detrimental effect on both performance metrics.