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The Capacity of a Power-Limited Transmitter in a Band-limited Channel Revisited

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This paper shows with simple setup and analysis that given the constraint of transmit power, receiver noise and a limited bandwidth, the capacity of the channel grows with the number of parallel transmissions from the transmitting antenna. The cost that is paid is higher complexity.

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    Zulfiquar Sayeed

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Sayeed, Z. The Capacity of a Power-Limited Transmitter in a Band-limited Channel Revisited. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 23, 310–312 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-016-0320-5

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