MIMO-OFDM is a key technology for next-generation cellular communications (3GPP-LTE,
Mobile WiMAX, IMT-Advanced) as well as wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11n),
wireless PAN (MB-OFDM), and broadcasting (DAB, DVB, DMB). This book provides a
comprehensive introduction to the basic Theory and practice of wireless channel modeling,
OFDM, and MIMO, with MATLAB ? programs to simulate the underlying techniques on
MIMO-OFDMsystems.Thisbookisprimarilydesignedforengineersandresearcherswhoare
interested in learning various MIMO-OFDM techniques and applying them to wireless
communications.
Multi-carrier modulation? Orthogonal Frequency Division Multi-
plexing (OFDM) particularly? has been successfully applied to
a wide variety of digital communications applications over the past
several years. Although OFDM has been chosen as the physical layer
standard for a diversity of important systems? the Theory? algorithms?
and implementation techniques remain subjects of current interest.
This is clear from the high volume of papers appearing in technical
journals and conferences.
Since the advent of optical communications, a great technological effort has
been devoted to the exploitation of the huge bandwidth of optical fibers. Start-
ing from a few Mb/s single channel systems, a fast and constant technological
development has led to the actual 10 Gb/s per channel dense wavelength di-
vision multiplexing (DWDM) systems, with dozens of channels on a single
fiber. Transmitters and receivers are now ready for 40 Gb/s, whereas hundreds
of channels can be simultaneously amplified by optical amplifiers.
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been shown to be
an effective technique to combat multipath fading in wireless channels. It
has been and is going to be used in various wireless communication systems.
This book gives a comprehensive introduction on the Theory and practice of
OFDM for wireless communications.
Performance analysis belongs to the domain of applied mathematics. The
major domain of application in this book concerns telecommunications sys-
tems and networks. We will mainly use stochastic analysis and probability
Theory to address problems in the performance evaluation of telecommuni-
cations systems and networks. The first chapter will provide a motivation
and a statement of several problems.
This book stems from its ancestor Digital Transmission Theory,published by
Prentice-Hall in 1987 and now out of print. Following the suggestion of several colleagues who complained about the unavailability of a textbook they liked and adopted in their courses, laying a strong emphasis on wireless communication. We hope that those who liked the previous book will find again its flavor here,while new reader, untouched by nostalgia, will judge it favorably.
Many good textbooks exist on probability and random processes written at the under-
graduate level to the research level. However, there is no one handy and ready book
that explains most of the essential topics, such as random variables and most of their
frequently used discrete and continuous probability distribution functions; moments,
transformation, and convergences of random variables; characteristic and generating
functions; estimation Theory and the associated orthogonality principle; vector random
variables; random processes and their autocovariance and cross-covariance functions; sta-
tionarity concepts; and random processes through linear systems and the associated
Wiener and Kalman filters.
Soon after Samuel Morse’s telegraphing device led to a deployed electri-
cal telecommunications system in 1843, waiting lines began to form by those
wanting to use the system. At this writing queueing is still a significant factor in
designing and operating communications services, whether they are provided
over the Internet or by other means, such as circuit switched networks.
Thanks for purchasing the RFI Pocket Guide. The
purpose of this guide to help you identify, locate
and resolve radio frequency interference (RFI). It
includes some basic Theory and measurement
techniques and there are a number of handy
references, tables, and equations that you may
find useful. The focus is to assist both amateur
radio operators, as well as commercial broadcast
and communications engineers, in resolving a
variety of common interference issues.
This book was born from the perception that there is much more to spectrum use
and sharing than one sees reflected in publications, whether academic, commercial
or political. the former – in good research style – tend towards reductionism and
concentrate on specific, detailed aspects. commercial publications tend to empha-
size the positive aspects and they tend to put promise above practice. Given the ever
increasing pace of technology development and recent successes of new wireless
technologies, some pundits predict large-scale spectrum scarcity, potentially lead-
ing to economic catastrophe. Although economic Theory has a hard time explaining
recent events that shook the world economy, the notion of spectrum scarcity is intui-
tively acceptable, even if not correct or immediately relevant.
