Outage Probability Conjecture for MIMO channels

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Consider a single-user MIMO Gaussian channel with tt transmitting antennas and rr receiving antennas, channel matrix H∈Cr×t{\mathbf{H}}\in\mathbb{C}^{r\times t}, and covariance matrices Q≥0{\mathbf{Q}}\geq 0 satisfying tr⁡(Q)≤P\operatorname{tr}({\mathbf{Q}})\leq P. Let Pout(R,P)P_{\mathrm{out}}(R,P) be the infimum of the outage probability over such covariance matrices. The matrices Q{\mathbf{Q}} attaining this infimum should have an eigenvalue decomposition

Q=UDU∗,{\mathbf{Q}}={\mathbf{U}}{\mathbf{D}}{\mathbf{U}}^*,

where U{\mathbf{U}} is t×tt\times t unitary and, for some integer 1≤k≤t1\leq k\leq t,

D=Pkdiag⁡(1,…,1⏟k,0,…,0⏟t−k).{\mathbf{D}}=\frac{P}{k}\operatorname{diag}(\underbrace{1,\dots,1}_{k},\underbrace{0,\dots,0}_{t-k}).

Outage Probability Conjecture. Every covariance matrix attaining the infimum has the stated form: power is allocated equally among some kk transmit dimensions and is zero on the remaining t−kt-k dimensions. The conjecture expresses the symmetry between the transmitters. It was generally accepted as plausible in the source, but the supplied text gives no resolution for the general MIMO case.

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Gen Li, Jingkai Yan and Yuantao Gu, “On the Outage Probability Conjecture for MIMO Channels”, arXiv:1711.01782 (2017).

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