ELEC-869
MIMO Communications Systems
Fall 2010

Announcements:

  1. The final exam is scheduled for December 13th, Monday, from 10am to 1pm.
  2. All the textbook and recommended books have been reserved for this course in the library. You can loan the books for one day.
  3. Lecture notes are posted before each lecture.
  4. If you wish to audit this course, you should see the instructor. Unofficial auditing is NOT permitted. You must take or audit this course officially.


Course Instructor:

Dr. IL-MIN KIM
Office: WLH 602
Office phone: 533-6000 ext:77672
Office hours: 9:30-10:30am, Friday
E-mail: ilmin.kim[at]queensu.ca

Time and location:

  • Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:15 AM; WLH 616
  • Thursday, 10:00 - 11:15 AM; WLH 616

    Course objective:

    The objective of this course is to provide graduate students with the fundamental theories of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications systems including space-time codes and cooperative diversity systems.


    Course topics:

    1. Introduction
    2. Review of linear algebra, probability theory, and optimum decision rules
    3. Review of fading channels
    4. MIMO channel models
    5. Capacity of MIMO systems
    6. Error probability analysis of MIMO systems
    7. Space-time block coding
    8. Quasi-orthogonal space-time block coding
    9. Transmit and receive beamforming
    10. Pairwise error probability of MIMO systems
    11. Space-time trellis coding
    12. Differential/unitary space-time block codes
    13. Layered MIMO systems (BLAST)
    14. Fundamental diversity-multiplexing tradeoffs
    15. Sphere decoding
    16. OFDM-MIMO systems
    17. Distributed MIMO including cooperative diversity technqiues


    Textbooks:

  • E. G. Larsson and P. Stoica, Space-time block coding for wireless communications, Cambridge University Press, 2003.


    Recommended reading material:

    1. B. Vucetic and J. Yuan, Space-time coding, Wiley, 2002.
    2. A. Paulraj et al., Introduction to space-time wireless communications, Cambridge Press, 2003.
    3. H. Jafarkhani, Space-time coding, Cambridge Press, 2005.
    4. G. B. Giannakis et al., Space-time coding for broadband wireless communications, Wiley, 2006.
    5. M. K. Simon and M.-S. Alouini, Digital communication over fading channels: a unified approach to performance analysis, 2nd edition, Wiley 2005.
    6. A. Goldsmith, Wireless communications, Cambridge Press 2005.
    7. D. Tse and P. Viswanath, Fundamentals of wireless communications, Cambridge Press 2005.
    8. T. M. Cover and J. A. Thomas, Elements of information theory, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
    9. Y. Raymond, Information theory and network coding, 2nd edition, New York, Springer, 2008.
    * The list of selected publications will be provided.


    Grading policy:

    1. Assignments: 10%
    2. Final research project: 20%
    3. Midterm exam: 20%
    4. Final exam: 50%


    Final Project and Assignments (password-protected):

  • Assignment 1
  • Final Project
  • Past Midterm/Final Exams
  • Assignment 2
  • Students' final projects

    Lecture notes (password-protected):

  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 4 (figure)
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 5 (figure)
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 7 (figure)
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
  • Chapter 10
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 11 (figure)
  • Chapter 13
  • Chapter 13 (figure)
  • DMT
  • DMT (figure)
  • Chapter 12

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    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
    Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario