Definition (Fading channel)
A memoryless fading channel is given by where is the additive noise, are the input and output, and which is the fading at time . Note that .
Theorem (Capacity with Decoder-Side Information (DSI))
Given a fading channel where both and are known at the receiver at each time instant (i.e. is the channel output). Then we define the channel capacity with DSI, as
Remark
Fading decreases capacity for the AWGN Channel
Theorem (Capacity with Full-Side Information (FSI))
Given a fading channel where and are known at the receiver and at the transmitter at each time instant. Then we define the channel capacity with FSI, as where we define the optimal power allocation, , as and satisfies .
Remark
Fading decreases capacity for the AWGN Channel