Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology has emerged, in the last decade, as a powerful means of increasing the performance of wireless communication systems. Research on this relatively new technology has penetrated in a substantial way many fields, ranging from signal processing to communication theory and channel modeling. Equally importantly, MIMO technology has rapidly made its way into current and next generation communication standards and systems. This tutorial presents a comprehensive overview of the theory that underlies MIMO communication as well as a perspective of how it is already impacting emerging commercial systems. The tutorial is organized in 3 distinct parts. In the first part, we establish the necessary basics: information-theoretic fundamentals, modeling of fading channels, transceiver architectures, diversity, space-time coding, and channel estimation. In the second part, we examine more advanced topics: diversity vs. multiplexing trade-off, coherence vs. noncoherence, precoding and optimum signaling, and multiuser MIMO (uplink, downlink and intercell). In the third and final part, we illustrate some of the applications that MIMO is finding in cellular systems and wireless LANs, and we anticipate other exciting applications that are forthcoming.
Total presentation time for parts 1a1, 1a2, 1b: 1h39min50sec
Total number of slides for parts 1a1, 1a2, 1b: 55
TutorialPart2a, TutorialPart2b and TutorialPart3,
WHICH ADD UP TO 72 SLIDES LASTING 1 HOUR AND 16 MINUTES.
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