Capacity Regions of Families of Continuous-Time Multi-User Gaussian Channels

Abstract

In this paper, we propose to use Brownian motions to model families of continuous-time multiuser Gaussian channels without bandwidth limit. It turns out that such a formulation allows parallel translation of many fundamental notions and techniques from the discrete-time setting to the continuous-time regime, which enables us to derive the capacity regions of a continuous-time white Gaussian multiple access channel with/without feedback, a continuous-time white Gaussian interference channel without feedback and a continuous-time white Gaussian broadcast channel without feedback. In theory, these capacity results give the fundamental transmission limit modulation/coding schemes can achieve for families of continuous-time Gaussian one-hop channels without bandwidth limit; in practice, the explicit capacity regions derived and capacity achieving modulation/coding scheme proposed may provide engineering insights on designing multi-user communication systems operating on an ultra-wideband regime.