MIMO Channels and Space-Time Coding

Outline: • Capacity of MIMO Channels: We discuss the information theo-retic bases for the capacity arguments of MIMO channels and present fundamental results and methods. • Channel Modeling and Realizable Capacity: We discuss simple ray-tracing channel models and study the capacity of these artificially generated channels. Basic conclusions on the behavior of real-world MIMO channels are drawn. • Space-Time Coding: We introduce the basics of space-time coding and modulation methods, such as orthogonal designs, unitary space-time codes, group space-time codes. We discuss error performance measures, and optimal and sub-optimal decoding algorithms. • Space-Time Communications Systems: We discuss basic layer-ing methods and the addition of error control coding to space-time systems. We show how complex decoders work and how they perform .