Guia docente 2014_15 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Lectures 1-3: MIMO communications	- Introduction. Array, spatial diveristy and spatial multiplexing gains. MIMO channel and signal models. - MIMO transmitter design. Principles of precoding for MIMO. Space-time coding. Multiuser MIMO transmitter design. - MIMO receiver design. Multiuser MIMO receiver design.
Lecture 4: Synchronization and spectrum sensing in cognitive radio.	- Motivation and requirements. Spectrum management. Synchronization in cognitive radio. Spectrum sensing.
Lecture 5: Dirty paper coding.	- Code design. Costa's theorem. Opportunistic low SNR codes. Applications in downlink channels.
Lecture 6: OFDM and beyond.	- Principles of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. Filterbanks and multicarrier. Cooperative diversity.
Lecture 7: Information theory for communications: a field guide.	- Basics of information theory. Shannon's capacity. MIMO channel capacity. Capacity of multiple access channels. Broadcast channel capacity.