Capacity Bounds on Doppler OFDM Channels

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Auteurs principaux: Orellana, Pablo, Li, Zheng, Kelif, Jean-Marc, Yang, Sheng, Shamai, Shlomo
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author Orellana, Pablo
Li, Zheng
Kelif, Jean-Marc
Yang, Sheng
Shamai, Shlomo
author_facet Orellana, Pablo
Li, Zheng
Kelif, Jean-Marc
Yang, Sheng
Shamai, Shlomo
contents Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems experience significant Doppler effects due to high mobility. While Doppler shifts can be largely compensated, residual frequency uncertainty induces a structured form of channel uncertainty that can limit achievable rates. We model this effect using a block-fading channel of the form $ \mathbf{H} = \mathbf{F} + s \mathbf{G} $, where $s$ is an unknown scalar random parameter. We first study this model in a general $N\times N$ MIMO setting. For this channel, we derive achievable rate lower bounds based on explicit transmission schemes and capacity upper bounds using a duality approach. We study Gaussian signaling and propose a practical superposition scheme with subspace alignment (SN) and successive interference cancellation, where a coarse-layer stream serves as an implicit pilot for decoding refined-layer data. We characterize asymptotic capacity in the near-coherent and high-SNR regimes, and show via Doppler-OFDM simulations that the proposed SN scheme achieves near-optimal rates with low complexity.
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spellingShingle Capacity Bounds on Doppler OFDM Channels
Orellana, Pablo
Li, Zheng
Kelif, Jean-Marc
Yang, Sheng
Shamai, Shlomo
Information Theory
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems experience significant Doppler effects due to high mobility. While Doppler shifts can be largely compensated, residual frequency uncertainty induces a structured form of channel uncertainty that can limit achievable rates. We model this effect using a block-fading channel of the form $ \mathbf{H} = \mathbf{F} + s \mathbf{G} $, where $s$ is an unknown scalar random parameter. We first study this model in a general $N\times N$ MIMO setting. For this channel, we derive achievable rate lower bounds based on explicit transmission schemes and capacity upper bounds using a duality approach. We study Gaussian signaling and propose a practical superposition scheme with subspace alignment (SN) and successive interference cancellation, where a coarse-layer stream serves as an implicit pilot for decoding refined-layer data. We characterize asymptotic capacity in the near-coherent and high-SNR regimes, and show via Doppler-OFDM simulations that the proposed SN scheme achieves near-optimal rates with low complexity.
title Capacity Bounds on Doppler OFDM Channels
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04862