Transmission and Reception with Multiple Antennas: Theoretical Foundations

Author(s): Ezio Biglieri;Giorgio Taricco

Source:
    Journal:Foundations and Trends® in Communications and Information Theory
    ISSN Print:1567-2190,  ISSN Online:1567-2328
    Publisher:Now Publishers
    Volume 1 Number 2,

Document Type: Article
Pages: 150(183-332)
DOI: 10.1561/0100000002

Abstract: Wireless communication system design was until recently thought to have been limited in practice by time and bandwidth. The discovery that space, obtained by increasing the number of transmit and receive antennas, can also effectively generate degrees of freedom, and hence expand the range of choices made available to the design offers system designers important new opportunities. This paper focuses on the main aspects of single-user multiple-antenna theory, with the goal of presenting a comprehensive, yet compact, survey, emphasizing its mathematical aspects. After describing channel models, we compute the capacities they achieve, we briefly overview “space-time” codes, and we describe how suboptimum architectures can be employed to simplify the receiver.

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