Today fixed satellite broadcast reception has to compete efficiently with other means of broadcast content delivery to end-users. The ease of reception is essential to maintain a high penetration rate under more competitive conditions. The introduction of DVB-S2 increases efficiency and allows for a higher throughput or a reduction of the reception equipment requirements. This means that a robu...

Using directional antennas to reduce interference and improve throughput in multi hop wireless networks has attracted much attention from the research community in recent years. In this paper, we consider the issue of minimum delay broadcast in multi rate wireless mesh networks using directional antennas. We are given a set of mesh routers equipped with directional antennas, one of which is the...

In this thesis we investigate the capacity of multi-user wireless communication channels. We first establish a duality relationship between the Gaussian broadcast and multiple-access channels. This relationship allows us to characterize the capacity region of the Gaussian broadcast channel in terms of the dual Gaussian multiple-access channel, and vice versa. This relationship holds for constan...

We consider the MIMO wiretap channel, that is a MIMO broadcast channel where the transmitter sends some confidential information to one user which is a legitimate receiver, while the other user is an eavesdropper. Perfect secrecy is achieved when the the transmitter and the legitimate receiver can communicate at some positive rate, while insuring that the eavesdropper gets zero bits of informat...

We give an overview of the results and techniques used to determine the capacity region of the Multi-Antenna Broadcast Channel [18]. We provide a brief historical perspective on this problem, and finally, indicate recent developments.

We characterize the sum rate of a class of multiterminal Gaussian source coding problems with quadratic distortion constraints. The key component of the solution is the identification of a multiple antenna broadcast channel that serves as a test channel.