Space-Time Layered Information Processing for Wireless Communications

List of Tables.

List of Figures.

1 Introduction.

1.1 Brief Historical Notes.

1.2 Turbo-Information Processing.

1.3 MIMO Wireless Communications.

1.4 Organization of the Book.

2 MIMO Channel Capacity.

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Antenna Systems.

2.3 Channel Capacity.


2.4 MIMO Capacity for a Channel Known at the Receiver.


2.5 Channel Known at the Transmitter.


2.6 Summary and Discussion.

3 BLAST Architectures.

3.1 BLAST Architecture.

3.2 Diagonal BLAST.

3.3 Vertical BLAST (V-BLAST).


3.4 Stratified Diagonal BLAST (SD-BLAST).


3.5 Simulations on BLAST for the Matrix Rayleigh Channel.

3.6 Multirate Layered Space-Time Architecture.

3.7 Outage Capacity.


3.8 Simulation Results.

3.9 Summary and Discussion.

4 Space-Time Turbo Codes and Turbo Decoding Principles.

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Turbo Codes.

4.3 Interleaver Designs for Turbo Codes.


4.4 Space-Time Turbo Codes.

4.4.1 Example Space-Time Turbo Codes.

4.5 Multirate Layered Space-Time (MLST) Turbo Codes.

4.6 Summary and Discussion.

5 Turbo-BLAST.

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 T-BLAST: Basic Transmitter Considerations.

5.3 Optimal Detection.

5.4 Distance Spectrum of RLST Codes.

5.5 Iterative Decoding: Basic Considerations.

5.6 Design and Performance of SISO Detectors.


5.7 Simulations on T-BLAST.

5.8 Summary and Discussion.

5.9 Appendix.

6 Turbo-MIMO Systems.

6.1 Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation.

6.2 Turbo-MIMO Theory and ST-BICM.

6.3 ST-BICM.

6.4 Iterative Detection and Decoding.

6.5 Suboptimal MIMO Detection.

6.6 Simulation for Narrowband Turbo-MIMO.

6.7 Wideband Turbo-MIMO (ST-BICM).

6.8 Summary.

Appendix 6.1.

Appendix 6.2.

Bibliography.

Index.