Abstract
This letter studies the performance of point-to-point multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of large but finite numbers of transmit and receive antennas. We use some recent results on the achievable rates of finite-length codes to analyze the system performance in the cases with short packets. The results are presented for different fading models. With codewords of finite length, we derive closed-form expressions for the error probability/throughput and determine the minimum number of antennas which are required to satisfy different error probability/throughput requirements. As we show, while the error-constrained required number of antennas is sensitive to the length of short codewords, its effect is negligible for codewords of moderate/long length.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 113-116 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | IEEE Wireless Communications Letters |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 26 2018 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledgements: This work was supported in part by VINNOVA (Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems) within the VINN Excellence Center ChaseOn. The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was S. K. Mohammed.