EC832 MIMO Communication Systems
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EC832 MIMO Communication Systems
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Overview of MIMO communications: Introduction to MIMO, Introduction to Spatial Diversity and Spatial Multiplexing, MIMO capacity formula, MIMO System Model. Application of MIMO Capacity, Phenomenology of multipath channels, Power law propagation, Impulse response of a multipath channel, Intrinsic multipath channel parameters, Classes of multipath channels, Statistics of small-scale fading, MIMO channels in LOS geometry, Antenna spacing and scattering angle,. Alamouti Coding and Space-time Coding: Maximal ratio receive combining (MRRC), Maximum likelihood decoding in MRRC and Alamouti receivers, Performance results, Space-time coding. Spatial Multiplexing: Overview of spatial multiplexing, BLAST architecture, Broadband MIMO, Narrowband and Broadband MIMO channel estimation