QoS Feasibility in MIMO Broadcast Channels With Widely Linear Transceivers

The use of proper, i.e., circularly symmetric, complex Gaussian signals for all users is known to be optimal in broadcast channels with proper complex Gaussian noise from an information theoretic point of view, i.e., they are employed in the capacity-achieving strategy. However, such proper per-user transmit signals are not necessarily optimal for problems with quality-of-service (QoS) constraints if the transmit strategy is restricted to widely linear transceivers without time-sharing. This is shown by deriving the QoS feasibility region of the multiple-input multiple-output broadcast channel with improper Gaussian per-user transmit signals and widely linear transceivers.