Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communications

An accessible introduction to the theory of space-time wireless communications.

Arogyaswami Paulraj (Author), Rohit Nabar (Author), Dhananjay Gore (Author)

9780521065931, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 June 2008

308 pages, 6 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.55 kg

Wireless networks are under constant pressure to provide ever higher data rates to increasing numbers of users with greater reliability. Space-time processing technology, which uses multiple antennas and sophisticated signal processing techniques, is a powerful new tool for improving system performance. The technology already features in the UMTS and CDMA2000 mobile standards. This book is an accessible introduction to the theory of space-time wireless communications. The authors discuss the basics of space-time propagation, space-time channels, channel capacity, spatial diversity and space-time coding. They highlight important trade-offs in the design of practical systems and cover advanced topics such as space-time OFDM and spread-spectrum modulation, co-channel interference cancellation, and multiuser MIMO. The book is an ideal introduction to this rapidly growing field for graduate students taking courses on wireless communications and for practitioners in the wireless industry. Homework problems and other supporting material are available on a companion website.

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.

Subject Areas: Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Electrical engineering [THR]