Synopses & Reviews
Wireless networks are under constant pressure to provide ever-higher data rates to increasing numbers of users with greater reliability. This book is an accessible introduction to every fundamental aspect of space-time wireless communications. Space-time processing technology is a powerful tool for improving system performance that already features in the UMTS and CDMA2000 mobile standards. The ideal volume for graduate students and professionals, it features homework problems and other supporting material on a companion website.
Synopsis
This book is an accessible introduction to the theory of space-time wireless communications. The book is an ideal introduction to this rapidly growing field for graduate students and for practitioners in the wireless industry. Homework problems and other supporting material are available on a companion website.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Space-time propagation; 3. Space-time channel and signal models; 4. Capacity of space-time channels; 5. Spatial diversity; 6. Space-time coding without channel knowledge at the transmitter; 7. Space-time receivers; 8. Exploiting channel knowledge at the receiver; 9. Space-time OFDM and spread spectrum modulation; 10. MIMO-multiuser; 11. Space-time co-channel interference mitigation; 12. Performance limits and tradeoffs in MIMO channels.