Bizaki H.K. (ed.) MIMO Systems, Theory and Applications

InTech, 2011. — 500 p. — ISBN 978-953-307-245-6In recent years, it was realized that the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication systems seems to be inevitable in accelerated evolution of high data rates applications. The MIMO systems, have received considerable at ention of researchers and commercial companies due to their potential to dramatically increase the spectral efficiency and simultaneously sending individual information to the corresponding users in wireless systems. Today, the main question is how to include multiple antennas at transmit er and receiver side and, what are the appropriate methods of detection and signal processing strategies for specific applications?
This book, intends to provide highlights of the current research topics in the field of MIMO system, to offer a snapshot of the recent advances in this area. This work is mainly destined to cover an overview of the major issues faced today by researchers in the MIMO related areas. Also, it is accessible to anyone with a scientifi c background desiring to have an up-to-date overview of this domain.
The book is written by specialists working in universities and research centers all over the world to cover the fundamental principles and main advanced topics on high data rates wireless communications systems over MIMO channels. Various aspects of theses systems are deeply discussed by emphasis of their recent applications in five part and twenty-two chapters. Moreover, the book has the advantage of providing a collection of applications that are completely independent and self-contained; thus, the interested reader can choose any chapter and skip to another without losing continuity. Each chapter provides a comprehensive survey of the subject area and terminates with a rich list of references to provide an in-depth coverage of the application at hand.