Table of Contents

Preface; Standard notation; Space-time coding notation; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Capacity of multiple-input multiple-output channels; 3. Space-time code design criteria; 4. Orthogonal space-time block codes; 5. Quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes; 6. Space-time trellis codes; 7. Super-orthogonal space-time trellis codes; 8. Differential space-time modulation; 9. Spatial multiplexing and receiver design; 10. Non-orthogonal space-time block codes; 11. Additional topics in space-time coding; Bibliography.

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Covers the fundamental principles of space-time coding for wireless communications over MIMO channels.

About the Author

HAMID JAFARKHANI is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine where he is also the Deputy Director of the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing. Before this, he worked for many years at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he was one of the co-inventors of space-time block coding.