Multiple antennas in wireless communications

Ing. Luca Sanguinetti
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione: Elettronica, Informatica, Telecomunicazioni, Università di Pisa

15 hours, 4 credits

April 20 - April 23, 2009

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione: Elettronica, Informatica, Telecomunicazioni, via Caruso, meeting room, ground floor

   

Abstract

Wireless local area networks are currently supplementing or replacing wired networks in homes and offices. In addition, a large number of new applications, including wireless sensor networks, automated highways and factories, smart phones and appliances, and remote telemedicine, are emerging from research ideas to concrete systems. On the other hand, the design of an efficient, reliable, and robust wireless communication network for each of these emerging applications poses many technical challenges. For these reasons, multiple-antenna radio systems have recently gained a lot of interest thanks to their potential benefits in terms of capacity and/or diversity gain. The aim of this series of lectures is to provide an overview of the fundamental information-theoretic results and practical implementation issues of multiple-antenna networks operating under various conditions of channel state information.

Syllabus

  • Introduction and motivation
  • System model
  • Capacity of multiple antenna systems
  • Deterministic channel
  • Fading channel
  • Space-time coding: principles and applications
  • Fundamentals of system design with multiple transmit and receive antennas
  • Channel known at the receiver
  • Channel known at the transmitter