Abstract:
We apply the theory of products of random matrices to the analysis of multi-user communication channels similar to the Wyner model, which are characterized by short-range intra-cell broadcasting. We study fluctuations of the per-cell sum-rate capacity in the non-ergodic regime and provide results of the type of the central limit theorem (CLT) and large deviations (LD). Our results show that CLT fluctuations of the per-cell sum-rate $C_m$ are of order $1/\sqrt m$, where $m$ is the number of cells, whereas they are of order $1/m$ in classical random matrix theory. We also show an LD regime of the form $\mathbf P(|C_m-C|>\varepsilon)\le e^{-m\alpha}$ with $\alpha=\alpha(\varepsilon)>0$ and $C=\lim\limits_{m\to\infty}C_m$, as opposed to the rate $e^{-m^2\alpha}$ in classical random matrix theory.