Detailed coverage of a technology that is embedded in the UMTS and WCDMA mobile standards.
Erik G. Larsson received his PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden, and is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He has also worked as a research engineer at Ericsson Radio Systems in Stockholm. He is the author of some 20 technical papers and holds four US patents related to wireless communications.
1. Introduction; 2. The time-invariant linear MIMO channel; 3. MIMO information theory; 4. Error probability analysis; 5. Receive diversity; 6. Transmit diversity and space-time coding; 7. Linear STBC for flat fading channels; 8. Linear STBC for frequency-selective channels; 9. Coherent and non-coherent receivers; 10. Space-time coding for informed transmitters; 11. Space-time coding in a multiuser environment; Appendices.