Mutual Information Analysis for Generalized Spatial Modulation Systems With Multilevel Coding

doi:10.1109/OJCOMS.2022.3193068

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Mutual Information Analysis for Generalized Spatial Modulation Systems With Multilevel Coding

2022-01-01

Volker Kühn

Daniel Nicolas Bailon

Jürgen Freudenberger *

DOI：10.1109/OJCOMS.2022.3193068

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Generalized Spatial Modulation (GSM) enables a trade-off between very high spectral efficiencies and low hardware costs for massive MIMO systems. This is achieved by transmitting information via the selection of active antennas from a set of available antennas besides the transmission of conventional data symbols. GSM systems have been investigated concerning various aspects like suitable signal constellations, efficient detection algorithms, hardware implementations, spatial precoding, and error control coding. On the other hand, determining the capacity of GSM is challenging because no closed-form expressions have been found so far. This paper investigates the mutual information for different GSM variants. We consider a multilevel coding approach, where the antenna selection and IQ modulation are encoded independently. Combined with multistage decoding, such an approach enables low-complexity capacity-achieving coded modulation. The influence of the data symbols on the mutual information is illuminated. We analyze the portions of mutual information related to antenna selection and the IQ modulation processes which depend on the GSM variant and the signal constellation. Moreover, the potential of spatial modulation for massive MIMO systems with many transmit antennas is investigated. Especially in systems with many transmit antennas much information can be conveyed by antenna selection.

Keywords:

Modulation

Mutual information

Antennas

Transmitting antennas

Symbols

GSM

Receiving antennas

Spatial modulation

information theory

capacity