The General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) allows an end user to send and
receive data in packet transfer mode within a public land mobile network
(PLMN) wIthout using a permanent connection between the mobile station
(MS) and the external network during data transfer. This way, GPRS opti-
mizes the use of network and radio resources (RRs) since, unlike circuit-
switched mode, no connection between the MS and the external network is
established when there is no data flow in progress. Thus, this RR optimiza-
tion makes it possible for the operator to offer more attractive fees.
In this book, we study the interference cancellation and detection problem in
multiantenna multi-user scenario using precoders. The goal is to utilize multiple
antennas to cancel the interference wIthout sacrificing the diversity or the com-
plexity of the system.
In the nineteenth century, scientists, mathematician, engineers and innovators started
investigating electromagnetism. The theory that underpins wireless communications was
formed by Maxwell. Early demonstrations took place by Hertz, Tesla and others. Marconi
demonstrated the first wireless transmission. Since then, the range of applications has
expanded at an immense rate, together with the underpinning technology. The rate of
development has been incredible and today the level of technical and commercial maturity
is very high. This success would not have been possible wIthout understanding radio-
wave propagation. This knowledge enables us to design successful systems and networks,
together with waveforms, antennal and transceiver architectures. The radio channel is the
cornerstone to the operation of any wireless system.
Fordecades,microwavelineofsight(LOS)linkshavebeenoneofthebasictechnolo-
gies used to build telephone networks. Until 1980, the fast rollout of high capacity
transport networks and deployment of links in areas with challenging geographic
characteristics could not be understood wIthout this technology.
Never have telecommunications operations and network management been so
important. Never has it been more important to move away from practices that date
back to the very beginning of the telecommunications industry. Building and con-
necting systems internally at low cost, on an as - needed basis, and adding software
for supporting new networks and services wIthout an overall architectural design
will not be cost effective for the future. Defi ning operations and network manage-
ment requirements at the 11th hour for new technologies, networks, and services
deployments must also change.
Theartofcomputationofelectromagnetic(EM)problemshasgrownexponentially
for three decades due to the availability of powerful computer resources. In spite of
this, the EM community has suffered wIthout a suitable text on the computational
techniques commonly used in solving EM-related problems. Although there have
been monographs on one particular technique or another, the monographs are written
for the experts rather than students. Only a few texts cover the major techniques and
dothatinamannersuitableforclassroomuse.Itseemsexpertsinthisareaarefamiliar
with one or a few techniques but not many seem to be familiar with all the common
techniques. This text attempts to fill that gap.
Ever since ancient times, people continuously have devised new techniques and
technologies for communicating their ideas, needs, and desires to others. Thus,
many forms of increasingly complex communication systems have appeared
over the years. The basic motivations behind each new one were to improve the
transmission fidelity so that fewer errors occur in the received message, to
increase the transmission capacity of a communication link so that more infor-
mation could be sent, or to increase the transmission distance between relay sta-
tions so that messages can be sent farther wIthout the need to restore the signal
fidelity periodically along its path.
wIthout doubt, the age of information communications is upon 11s. The rapid
pace of technological advancement in digital data communications can be wit-
nessed in a multitude of applications in our day-to-day existence. In recent
years, the widespread proliferation of wireless digital cornmunications hass been
readily accepted by the general population worldwide; this is nearly unpa~rallcled
in few other human scientific achievements in terms of scope and speed of devel-
opment.
This book is a result of the recent rapid advances in two related technologies: com-
munications and computers. Over the past few decades, communication systems
have increased in complexity to the point where system design and performance
analysis can no longer be conducted wIthout a significant level of computer sup-
port. Many of the communication systems of fifty years ago were either power or
noise limited. A significant degrading effect in many of these systems was thermal
noise, which was modeled using the additive Gaussian noise channel.
By inventing the wireless transmitter or radio in 1897, the Italian physicist Tomaso
Guglielmo Marconi added a new dimension to the world of communications. This
enabled the transmission of the human voice through space wIthout wires. For this
epoch-making invention, this illustrious scientist was honored with the Nobel Prize
for Physics in 1909. Even today, students of wireless or radio technology remember
this distinguished physicist with reverence. A new era began in Radio
Communications.