JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Fading Channels and Diversity Techniques: Wireless channels – Error/Outage probability over fading channels – Diversity techniques – Channel coding as a means of time diversity – Multiple antennas in wireless communications.

UNIT - II

Capacity and Information Rates of MIMO Channels: Capacity and Information rates of noisy, AWGN and fading channels – Capacity of MIMO channels – Capacity of non-coherent MIMO channels – Constrained signaling for MIMO communications.

UNIT - III

Space-Time Block and Trellis Codes: Transmit diversity with two antennas: The Alamouti scheme – Orthogonal. and Quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes – Linear dispersion codes – Generic space-time trellis codes – Basic space-time code design principles – Representation of space-time trellis codes for PSK constellation – Performance analysis for space-time trellis codes – Comparison of space-time block and trellis codes.

UNIT - IV

Concatenated Codes and Iterative Decoding: Development of concatenated codes – Concatenated codes for AWGN and MIMO channels – Turbo coded modulation for MIMO channels – Concatenated space-time block coding.

UNIT - V

Space-Time Coding for Frequency Selective Fading Channels: MIMO frequency-selective channels – Capacity and Information rates of MIMO FS fading channels.– Space-time coding and Channel detection for MIMO FS channels – MIMO OFDM systems.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Tolga M. Duman and Ali Ghrayeb, “Coding for MIMO Communication systems”, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, England, 2007.
• 2. A. B. Gershman and N.D. Sidiropoulus, “Space-time processing for MIMO Communications”, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2005.

REFERENCES:

• 1. E.G. Larsson and P. Stoica, “Space-time block coding for Wireless communications”, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• 2. M. Janakiraman, “Space-time codes and MIMO systems”, Artech House, 2004.
• 3. H. Jafarkhani, “Space-time coding: Theory & Practice”, Cambridge University Press, 2005. M. TECH. I YEAR II SEMESTER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS