Wireless communication system design was until recently thought to have been limited in practice by time and bandwidth. The discovery that space, obtained by increasing the number of transmit and receive antennas, can also effectively generate degrees of freedom, and hence expand the range of choices made available to the design offers system designers important new opportunities.

Transmission and Reception with Multiple Antennas: Theoretical Foundations describes the channel models deployed in such systems shows how to compute the capacities achieved, overviews “space-time” codes and describes how suboptimum architectures can be employed to simplify the receiver. It provides an excellent overview for designers, students and researchers working at the forefront of wireless communication systems.

Published by Now Publishers and marketed by World Scientific

Contents:

• Introduction
• Preliminaries
• Channel Models
• Channel Capacity
• Influence of Channel-State Information
• Coding for Multiple Antenna Systems
• Some Practical Coding Schemes
• Suboptimum Receiver Interfaces
• The Fundamental Tradeoff
• Appendices:
• Complex Random Variables and Vectors
• Results from Information Theory
• Random Matrices
• Numerical Calculation or Error Probabilities
• Two Proofs