Space-Time Coding 1st Edition by Branka Vucetic (PDF)

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The capacity of wireless data communications is lagging behind demands due to unsatisfactory performance of the existing wireless networks, such as low data rates, low spectral efficiency and low quality of service. Space-time coding is an effective transmit diversity technique to combat fading in wireless communications. Space-time codes are a highly bandwidth-efficient approach to signalling within wireless communication that takes advantage of the spatial dimension by transmitting a number of data streams using multiple co-located antennas. There are various approaches to the coding structures, including space-time trellis coded modulation, space-time turbo codes and also layered architectures. The central issue in all these various coding structures is the exploitation of multipath effects in order to achieve very high spectral efficiencies. The spectral efficiencies of traditional wireless systems range between 1-5bps/sec/Hz but by using space-time techniques spectral efficiencies of 20-40bps/sec/Hz have been possible. Hence, space-time coding enables an increase in capacity by an order of magnitude. This is the main reason why space-time codes have been included in the standards for the third generation wireless communication systems and ultimately why Space-time Coding will be in great demand by individuals within industry and academia. The comprehensive understanding of space-time coding is essential in the implementation of 3G, and as the only title currently available, Space-Time Coding will be the standard text for Researchers, telecommunication engineers and network planners, academics and undergraduate/postgraduate students, telecommunications managers and consultants.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Space-Time Coding provides an introduction to the subject and its application to wireless communication systems. With the integration of internet and multimedia applications in next generation wireless communications, the demand for wide-band high data rate communication services is growing. Space-time coding is based on introducing joint correlation in transmitted signals in both space and time domains. This volume provides an overview of design principles and major space?time coding techniques starting from MIMO system information theory capacity bounds and channel models, while endeavouring to pave the way towards complex areas such as applications of space?time codes and their performance evaluation in wide-band wireless channels. Provides a working knowledge of Space-Time Coding.Explains why Space-Time Codes have been included in the standards for the third generation wireless communication systems.Offers illustrated examples, solutions and performance evaluation results throughout the volume. Written in a highly accessible format, Space-Time Coding is intended for postgraduate students, practicing engineers and researchers. The reader will have some familiarity with basic digital communications, matrix analysis and probability theory. From the Back Cover Space-Time Coding provides an introduction to the subject and its application to wireless communication systems. With the integration of internet and multimedia applications in next generation wireless communications, the demand for wide-band high data rate communication services is growing. Space-time coding is based on introducing joint correlation in transmitted signals in both space and time domains. This volume provides an overview of design principles and major space?time coding techniques starting from MIMO system information theory capacity bounds and channel models, while endeavouring to pave the way towards complex areas such as applications of space?time codes and their performance evaluation in wide-band wireless channels. Provides a working knowledge of Space-Time Coding.Explains why Space-Time Codes have been included in the standards for the third generation wireless communication systems.Offers illustrated examples, solutions and performance evaluation results throughout the volume. Written in a highly accessible format, Space-Time Coding is intended for postgraduate students, practicing engineers and researchers. The reader will have some familiarity with basic digital communications, matrix analysis and probability theory. About the Author Branka Vucetic is an Australian-based expert in coding theory and its applications in wireless technology. She works at the University of Sydney where she holds the positions of ARC Laureate Fellow, Peter Nicol Russell Chair in Telecommunications, and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications.Jinhong Yuan is the author of Space-Time Coding, published by Wiley. Read more

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⭐First the good stuff:(1) Chapters and sections are organized well.(2) Reference lists at the end of each chapter are nice and comprehensive.(3) This book is written in a much better style than Paulraj et.al.’s related book: ‘Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communications’. The latter book is a self referencing piece of crap.Hence the three stars.Major problem with the book: Poor cut and paste job from the references without much thought, originality and correction. Here are some examples:(1) Chapter 1 is a poor representation of Telatar/Foschini work on channel capacity with series of errors introduced in the text.(2) Chapter 2 is a bad cut and paste job of Tarokh paper on structure of space time codes: Tarokh has a few mistakes in his paper, none of which are corrected here. Read the original paper. Authors attempted to provide a little extra material here (the exact pairwise error probability for space-time codes) but did not carry it far enough to give any insight.(3) Chapter 3 is one of the best examples of conveying simple information in a nonsense manner. Most of the important results are cited without proof from Tarokh’s Orthogonal Designs paper, e.g., ‘The rate of a space-time block code with full transmit diversity is <= 1' [page 100], while the authors are busy filling pages with simple redundant arithmetic nonsense [pages 106-108]. Very dry and unimpressive.Furthermore, I would be at least happy if they caught the lack of linear system theory knowledge that Tarokh papers present: 'STBC can achieve full diversity with linear processing of received signals'. This is a mistake in the case of complex signals, taking a conjugate of a signal after all is a nonlinear operation.The following chapters continue the lack of care and quality. I do not demand Wozencraft/Jacobs or Gallager quality anymore, but at least Proakis level of presentation.My advice:(1) Use Amazon's look inside the book feature to get the references at the end of each chapter.(2) Download these papers (most are available on the Internet after a Google search) and read them instead of the book. ⭐The author has endeavored to explain a very difficult topic in simplistic terms. Each word is well chosen and carefully weighted and the chapters are extremely well structured. The author has avoided taking the reader for granted and has explained every mathematical step and assumption. The topics are built up in a logical manner, one step leading to the next. The chapters on space-time trellis coding and space-time block coding are superb!!!The author has also dealt with advanced topics like differential space-time block codes and space-time turbo-trellis codes in a cogent manner.I recommend this book to engineers, students and researchers alike. It is my personal belief and I guarantee that you will not regret purchasing it!! I know something about these topics, having been a communication research engineer for some 20 years. Very clearly the author has brought to bear her very considerable teaching experience in the making of this book. Doubts from readers are very well anticipated and answered. The best part of this book is that obscure and very often confusing technical jargon has been studiously avoided and the author has kept everything very simple!!! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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