On the Szegö-Asymptotics for Doubly-Dispersive Gaussian Channels

Abstract: We consider the time-continuous doubly-dispersive channel with additive Gaussian noise and establish a capacity formula for the case where the channel correlation operator is represented by a symbol which is periodic in time and fulfills some further integrability and smoothness conditions. The key to this result is a new Szeg\"o formula for certain pseudo-differential operators. The formula justifies the water-filling principle along time and frequency in terms of the time--continuous time-varying transfer function (the symbol).