In a frequency selective slow-fading channel in a MIMO system, the channel matrix is of the form of a block matrix. We propose a method to calculate the limit of the eigenvalue distribution of block matrices if the size of the blocks tends to infinity. We will also calculate the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution of $HH^*$, where the entries of $H$ are jointly Gaussian, with a correlation of the form $E[h_{ pj}\bar h_{ qk}]= \sum_{ s=1}^t \Psi^{ (s)}_{ jk}\hat\Psi^{ (s)}_{ pq}$ (where $t$ is fixed and does not increase with the size of the matrix). We will use an operator-valued free probability approach to achieve this goal. Using this method, we derive a system of equations, which can be solved numerically to compute the desired eigenvalue distribution.
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