| Preface | p. ix |
| Standard notation | p. xi |
| Space-time coding notation | p. xii |
| List of abbreviations | p. xiv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Introduction to the book | p. 1 |
| Wireless applications | p. 2 |
| Wireless channels | p. 5 |
| Statistical models for fading channels | p. 12 |
| Diversity | p. 15 |
| Spatial multiplexing gain and its trade-off with diversity | p. 23 |
| Closed-loop versus open-loop systems | p. 24 |
| Historical notes on transmit diversity | p. 26 |
| Summary | p. 27 |
| Problems | p. 28 |
| Capacity of multiple-input multiple-output channels | p. 30 |
| Transmission model for multiple-input multiple-output channels | p. 30 |
| Capacity of MIMO channels | p. 34 |
| Outage capacity | p. 39 |
| Summary of important results | p. 43 |
| Problems | p. 44 |
| Space-time code design criteria | p. 45 |
| Background | p. 45 |
| Rank and determinant criteria | p. 46 |
| Trace criterion | p. 50 |
| Maximum mutual information criterion | p. 52 |
| Summary of important results | p. 53 |
| Problems | p. 53 |
| Orthogonal space-time block codes | p. 55 |
| Introduction | p. 55 |
| Alamouti code | p. 55 |
| Maximum-likelihood decoding and maximum ratio combining | p. 59 |
| Real orthogonal designs | p. 60 |
| Generalized real orthogonal designs | p. 70 |
| Complex orthogonal designs | p. 76 |
| Generalized complex orthogonal designs | p. 77 |
| Pseudo-orthogonal space-time block codes | p. 90 |
| Performance analysis | p. 93 |
| Simulation results | p. 101 |
| Summary of important results | p. 107 |
| Problems | p. 108 |
| Quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes | p. 110 |
| Pairwise decoding | p. 110 |
| Rotated QOSTBCs | p. 112 |
| Optimal rotation and performance of QOSTBCs | p. 115 |
| Other examples of QOSTBCs | p. 120 |
| QOSTBCs for other than four transmit antennas | p. 122 |
| Summary of important results | p. 125 |
| Problems | p. 125 |
| Space-time trellis codes | p. 126 |
| Introduction | p. 126 |
| Space-time trellis coding | p. 130 |
| Improved STTCs | p. 136 |
| Performance of STTCs | p. 143 |
| Simulation results | p. 145 |
| Summary of important results | p. 149 |
| Problems | p. 149 |
| Super-orthogonal space-time trellis codes | p. 151 |
| Motivation | p. 151 |
| Super-orthogonal codes | p. 153 |
| CGD analysis | p. 167 |
| Encoding and decoding | p. 173 |
| Performance analysis | p. 179 |
| Extension to more than two antennas | p. 181 |
| Simulation results | p. 187 |
| Summary of important results | p. 192 |
| Problems | p. 193 |
| Differential space-time modulation | p. 195 |
| Introduction | p. 195 |
| Differential encoding | p. 198 |
| Differential decoding | p. 203 |
| Extension to more than two antennas | p. 207 |
| Simulation results | p. 214 |
| Summary of important results | p. 218 |
| Problems | p. 218 |
| Spatial multiplexing and receiver design | p. 221 |
| Introduction | p. 221 |
| Spatial multiplexing | p. 222 |
| Sphere decoding | p. 223 |
| Using equalization techniques in receiver design | p. 227 |
| V-Blast | p. 230 |
| D-Blast | p. 235 |
| Turbo-Blast | p. 238 |
| Combined spatial multiplexing and space-time coding | p. 241 |
| Simulation results | p. 246 |
| Summary of important results | p. 249 |
| Problems | p. 249 |
| Non-orthogonal space-time block codes | p. 251 |
| Introduction | p. 251 |
| Linear dispersion space-time block codes | p. 252 |
| Space-time block codes using number theory | p. 259 |
| Threaded algebraic space-time codes | p. 260 |
| Simulation results | p. 267 |
| Summary of important results | p. 270 |
| Problems | p. 270 |
| Additional topics in space-time coding | p. 272 |
| MIMO-OFDM | p. 272 |
| Implementation issues in MIMO-OFDM | p. 278 |
| Space-time turbo codes | p. 283 |
| Beamforming and space-time coding | p. 286 |
| Problems | p. 290 |
| References | p. 291 |
| Index | p. 300 |
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