Fundamentals of Wireless Communication
This article provides an overview of the textbook 'Fundamentals of Wireless Communication,' covering key concepts like MIMO, channel modeling, and information theory. It serves as a resource for graduate students and engineers interested in the physical-layer theory of wireless systems.
Why it matters
It offers foundational knowledge for the development of modern wireless infrastructure, including cellular and data transmission technologies.
Book: Fundamentals of Wireless Communication
Point-to-point communication: detection, diversity and channel uncertainty; PDF
Cellular systems: multiple access and interference management; PDF
Multiuser capacity and opportunistic communication; PDF
MIMO I: spatial multiplexing and channel modeling; PDF
MIMO II: capacity and multiplexing architectures; PDF
MIMO III: diversity-multiplexing tradeoff and universal space-time codes; PDF
Appendix A: Detection and estimation in additive Gaussian noise; PDF
Appendix B: Information theory from first principles. PDF
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