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.