Lehrinhalte
This lecture course introduces the principles of space-time and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications.
Outline: Motivation and background; overview of space-time and MIMO communications; fading MIMO channel models, MIMO information theory, receive and transmit diversity; channel estimation, MIMO detectors, Alamouti space-time block code, orthogonal space-time block codes; linear dispersion codes; coherent and non-coherent decoders, differential space-time block coding; MIMO with limited feedback, Multiantenna- and multiuser diversity, BER performance analysis, MIMO in moden wireless communication networks, multicell and multiuser MIMO (coordinated multipoint).

Literature
1. A.B.Gershman and N.D.Sidiropoulos, Editors, Space-Time Processing for MIMO Communications, Wiley and Sons, 2005.
2. E.G.Larsson and P.Stoica, Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2003;
3. A.Paulraj, R.Nabar, and D.Gore, Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
4. Lin Bai and Jinho Choi, Low Complexity MIMO detectors, Springer, 2012.
5. Howard Huang, Constantinos B. Papadias, and Sivarama Venkatesan, MIMO Communication for Cellular Networks, Springer, 2012.

Voraussetzungen
Knowledge of basic communication theory and basic information theory.

Semester: WT 2021/22