On the Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff of the Gaussian MIMO Broadcast Channel

The optimal set of multiplexing gain tuples for the users in a broadcast network with K receivers having N-r antennas each and N-t antennas at the base station, given a minimum diversity gain constraint of d for each user, is investigated. An outer bound on this region is computed by analyzing the outage probability, where outage is defined as the event that the given rate tuple lies outside the capacity region of the broadcast channel. For the special but important case of single antenna receivers with K <= N-t, the lattice reduction based precoding recently proposed in [1] is shown to achieve the outage outer bound.