Digital Communication Over Fading Channels, Second Edition
Wiley-Interscience
934 pages; $195
ISBN: 0-471-64953-8
Like its predecessor, this second edition discusses in detail, coherent and non-coherent communication systems as well as a large variety of fading channel models typical of communication links found in the real world. Its coverage includes single- and multi-channel reception and, in the case of the latter, a large variety of diversity types. The moment generating function (MGF)-based approach for performance analysis, introduced by the authors in the first edition and referred to in literally hundreds of publications, still represents the backbone of the book’s presentation. Since the publication of the first edition, a great deal of additional significant work on the subject has been performed and reported on in the literature. Perhaps the most significant of these new developments is the explosion of interest and research that has taken place in the area of transmit diversity and space-time coding and the associated multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) channel, a subject that was briefly alluded to but not discussed in any detail in the first edition. Aside from these developments, many new and exciting results have been developed that have led to new and improved diversity schemes and allow for the performance analysis of previously known schemes operating in new and different fading scenarios not discussed in the first edition. The book is composed of five parts, each with its own express purpose. The first part contains an introduction to the subject of communication system performance. Part 2 starts by introducing the alternative forms of the classic functions and shows how these forms can be used. Part 3 derives the optimum receiver structures corresponding to a variety of combinations concerning the knowledge or lack thereof of the fading parameters. Part 4 deals with multi-user communications and Part 5 extends the theory developed previously for uncoded communication to error-correction-coded systems.
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Multi-antenna Wireless Communication Systems
Artech House
463 pages; $109, £73
ISBN: 1-58053-634-4
Most current communication systems implicitly assume that the information is carried by a physical support (information signal) that is defined over a one-dimensional independent variable: time. Adding space to time creates a high number of additional degrees of freedom that can be exploited to increase the spectral efficiency. To incorporate space as an additional domain where the information flows, beside time, it is necessary to transmit from different points in space and to gather information from different points. This is achieved through multi-antenna systems. The scope of this book is to provide the basic theoretical tools for designing and analyzing multi-antenna communication systems. Space-time coding plays a fundamental role in this book, as the way to achieve most of the promised benefits. Three chapters are entirely devoted to space-time coding and one more chapter addresses the relatively novel strategy of distributed space-time coding, as a novel paradigm to design cooperative communication systems. However, this is not a book on space-time coding. There are many other tools which are not, typically, part of a book on multi-antenna systems. These include: game theory, as a tool to devise the optimal transmission strategies in a multi-user scenario where different user terminals (players) compete with each other for the use of the available resources; convex optimization and majorization theory, as the basic tool for optimizing the transmission scheme when the transmitter has some knowledge about the channel; random geometric graphs, as the basic tool for studying the connectivity of wireless networks; and eigendecomposition of weakly inhomogeneous operators, as a way to analyze the optimal transmission strategies over time-varying channels. The hope is to provide the reader with a series of tools, borrowed from different disciplines but presented in a single context, whose combination may give rise to a strong synergism and cross fertilization.
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