Upper Bound on the Capacity of Discrete-Time Wiener Phase Noise Channels

Abstract

A discrete-time Wiener phase noise channel with an integrate-and-dump multi-sample receiver is studied. An upper bound to the capacity with an average input power constraint is derived, and a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) analysis is performed. If the oversampling factor grows as $\text{SNR}^α$ for $0\le α\le 1$, then the capacity pre-log is at most $(1+α)/2$ at high SNR.

5 pages, 1 figure. To be presented at IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW) 2015