Foundations of MIMO Communication

Understand the fundamentals of wireless and MIMO communication with this accessible and comprehensive text. Viewing the subject through an information theory lens, but also drawing on other perspectives, it provides a sound treatment of the key concepts underpinning contemporary wireless communication and MIMO, all the way to massive MIMO. Authoritative and insightful, it includes over 330 worked examples and 450 homework problems, with solutions and MATLAB code and data available online. Altogether, this is an excellent resource for instructors and graduate students, as well as an outstanding reference for researchers and practicing engineers.

Table of Contents

Part I Wireless Communication Theory

1 A primer on information theory and MMSE estimation

2 A signal processing perspective

3 Channel modeling

4 Single-user SISO

Part II Single-user MIMO

5 SU-MIMO with optimum receivers

6 SU-MIMO with linear receivers

Part III Multiuser MIMO

7 Multiuser communication prelude

8 MU-MIMO with optimum transceivers

9 MU-MIMO with linear transceivers

10 Massive MIMO

11 Afterword

About the Authors

Robert W. Heath, Jr is a Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Angel Lozano is a Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).