New Directions in Wireless Communications Research

The result of a collaboration among leading researchers in the fields of sensor networks, coding for networks and cognitive networks, this text addresses critical issues in the design and performance analysis of current and future wireless system design.

New Directions in Wireless Communications Research addresses critical issues in the design and performance analysis of current and future wireless system design. Intended for use by system designers and academic researchers, the contributions are by acknowledged international leaders in their field.

Topics covered include: (1) Characterization of wireless channels; (2) The principles and challenges of OFDM; (3) Low-correlation sequences for communications; (4) Resource allocation in wireless systems; (5) Signal processing for wireless systems, including iterative systems collaborative beamforming and interference rejection and network coding; (6) Multi-user and multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) communications; (7) Cooperative wireless networks, cognitive radio systems and coded bidirectional relaying in wireless networks; (8) Fourth generation standards such as LTE and WiMax and standard proposals such as UMB.

With chapters from some of the leading researchers in the field, this book is an invaluable reference for those studying and practicing in the field of wireless communications. The book provides the most recent information on topics of current interest to the research community including topics such as sensor networks, coding for networks, cognitive networks and many more.

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New Directions in Wireless Communications Research addresses critical issues in the design and performance analysis of current and future wireless system design. Intended for use by system designers and academic researchers, the contributions are by acknowledged international leaders in their field.

Topics covered include:

• Characterization of wireless channels

• The principles and challenges of OFDM

• Low-correlation sequences for communications

• Resource allocation in wireless systems

• Signal processing for wireless systems, including iterative systems collaborative beamforming and interference rejection and network coding

• Multi-user and multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) communications

• Cooperative wireless networks, cognitive radio systems and coded bidirectional relaying in wireless networks

• Fourth generation standards such as LTE and WiMax and standard proposals such as UMB

The volume will be an indispensable reference for all workers in the area of wireless system design.

Contenu
Measurement and Modeling of Wireless Channels.- OFDM: Principles and Challenges.- Recent Advances in Low-Correlation Sequences.- Resource Allocation in Wireless Systems.- Iterative receivers and their graphical models.- Fundamentals of Multi-User MIMO Communications.- Collaborative Beamforming.- CooperativeWireless Networks.- Interference Rejection and Management.- Cognitive Radio: From Theory to Practical Network Engineering.- Coded Bidirectional Relaying in Wireless Networks.- Minimum-cost Subgraph Algorithms for Static and Dynamic Multicasts with Network Coding.- Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB).- Mobile WiMAX.- An Overview of 3GPP Long-Term Evolution Radio Access Network.