course contents
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. ABGershman and NDSidiropoulos, Editors, Space-Time Processing for MIMO Communications, Wiley and Sons, 2005.
2. EGLarsson 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.
Preconditions
Knowledge of basic communication theory and basic information theory.
- Lehrende: Vahid Jamali