Fundamentals of Wireless Communication

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Book Description

This textbook takes a unified view of the fundamentals of wireless communication and explains the web of concepts underpinning these advances at a level accessible to an audience with a basic background in probability and digital communication. Topics covered include MIMO (multiple input multiple output) communication, space-time coding, opportunistic communication, OFDM and CDMA. The concepts are illustrated using many examples from wireless systems such as GSM, IS-95 (CDMA), IS-856(1xEV-DO), Flash OFDM and ArrayComm SDMA systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the interplay between concepts and their implementation in systems.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The wireless channel
• Point-to-point communication: detection, diversity and channel uncertainty
• Cellular systems: multiple access and interference management
• Capacity of wireless channels
• Multiuser capacity and opportunistic communication
• MIMO I: spatial multiplexing and channel modeling
• MIMO II: capacity and multiplexing architectures
• MIMO III: diversity-multiplexing tradeoff and universal space-time codes
• MIMO IV: multiuser communication

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