MIMO Wireless Communications

Swayam: https://swayam.gov.in/course/3672-fundamentals-of-mimo-wireless-communication
NPTEL: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_ec11/preview
Course Instructor : Dr. SuvraSekhar Das ( Common for both Swayam and NPTEL)
Swayam:
Overview
This course covers the fundamentals of Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna based wireless
communication systems. MIMO is now an essential part of modern wireless communication systems,
such as 3G, 4G, WLAN / Wifi, LTE, WiMax, etc. MIMO brings to the domain of wireless
communications, spectral efficiency and reliability gains. With multiple antennas at the transmitter and
receiver it helps design wireless communication systems that can use the additional spatial dimension
over and above the well investigated time-frequency dimensions to fetch myriads of new gains. MIMO
is expected to be one of the enabler of 5G communication systems. This course covers important
concepts of MIMO communication such as capacity computation, error probability analysis, transmitter
and receiver design, multi-user communication, etc. After completion of the course the participants will
be able to apply the methods for performance analysis and design of advanced wireless communication
systems.

Course Syllabus & Schedule

Lecture 01: Evolution of Wireless Communication Systems 1G - 5G
Lecture 02: Elements of Wireless Communication System
Lecture 03 : Overview of MIMO Communication Systems
Lecture 04: Layered View of Transmitter and Receiver : Introduction to
Lecture 05: Wireless Channel Models – I
Lecture 06: Large Scale Propagation Models Path Loss
Lecture 07: Large Scale Propagation Models Path Loss and Shadowing
Lecture 08: Small Scale Propagation Multipath Model
Lecture 09: Small Scale Propagation Frequency Flat Fading
Lecture 10: Small Scale Propagation Envelope Distribution
Lecture 11: Small Scale Propagation Received Signal Correlation
Lecture 12: Small Scale Propagation Received Signal Correlation Contd.
Lecture 13: Coherence Time
Lecture 14: Doppler Spectrum
Lecture 15: Frequency Selective Fading
Lecture 16: Frequency Selective Fading-II
Lecture 17: FSF-Coherence Bandwidth, Delay Doppler Characteristics
Lecture 18: Spatial Channel Characteristics - I
Lecture 19: Expression of MIMO Channel
Lecture 20: MIMO Channel Characteristics
Lecture 21: Properties of H
Lecture 22: Important Results from Linear Algebra
Lecture 23: Spatial Diversity
Lecture 24: Selection Combining
Lecture 25: Maximal Ratio Combining
Lecture 26: Problem of Error in MRC
Lecture 27: Diversity Gain and Transmit MRC
Lecture 28: Transmit Diversity without Channel known at Tx
Lecture 29: MIMO Transmit Diversity - 1
Lecture 30: MIMO Transmit Diversity – 2
Lecture 31: Fundamentals of Information Theory - I
Lecture 32: Fundamentals of Information Theory - II
Lecture 33: Fundamentals of Information Theory - III
Lecture 34: Fundamentals of Information Theory - IV
Lecture 35: Capacity of Deterministic MIMO Channels
Lecture 36: Capacity of Channel Unknown at Transmitter
Lecture 37: Capacity of Channel Known at Transmitter
Lecture 38: More on MIMO Channel Capacity
Lecture 39: Capacity of Random Channel
Lecture 40: MIMO in Practice

NPTEL:
ABOUT THE COURSE
This course covers the fundamentals of Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna based wireless
communication systems. MIMO is now an essential part of modern wireless communication systems,
such as 3G, 4G, WLAN / Wifi, LTE, WiMax, etc. MIMO brings to the domain of wireless
communications, spectral efficiency and reliability gains. With multiple antennas at the transmitter and
receiver it helps design wireless communication systems that can use the additional spatial dimension
over and above the well investigated time-frequency dimensions to fetch myriads of new gains. MIMO
is expected to be one of the enabler of 5G communication systems. This course covers important
concepts of MIMO communication such as capacity computation, error probability analysis, transmitter
and receiver design, multi-user communication, etc. After completion of the course the participants will
be able to apply the methods for performance analysis and design of advanced wireless communication
systems.

COURSE LAYOUT
Week 1:
Introduction to wireless communication systems and wireless channels
Week 2:
Wireless channel models
Week 3:
MIMO channel model
Week 4:
Information Theory basics for MIMO communication
Week 5:
Capacity of MIMO Communication systems
Week 6:
Diversity performance of MIMO channels
Week 7:
Space Time Coding schemes
Week 8:
Multi-user MIMO communications

University of Southampton

 The fundamentals of MIMO, diversity and multiplexing gains, beamforming gain, SDMA
based multi user system
 Vertical Bell Lab layered space-time (V-BLAST), space-time block codes (STBCs), Linear
dispersion codes (LDCs), spatial modulation (SM) and space-shift keying (SSK), and
spacetime shift keying (STSK)
  A unified MIMO
 Acquisition of MIMO channel state information (CSI), state-of-the-art near-capacity MIMO
systems.

The University of Arizona

http://www2.engr.arizona.edu/~ivan/ECE638/syllabus.htm

MIMO channel model, MIMO channel capacity, and space-time coding. The section on multicarrier
modulation provides comprehensive treatment of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
(OFDM).

Multiple Antenna and Space-Time Communications

 Narrowband MIMO Model

 Parallel Decomposition of MIMO Channel
 MIMO Diversity Gain: Beamforming
 Space-Time Modulation and Coding: ML detection, rank and determinant criteria, space-time
trellis and block codes (Alamouti code; orthogonal designs; linear space-time codes; trellis
space-time codes; linear interfaces: ZF, MMSE; nonlinear interfaces: ZF-V-BLAST, MMSE-
V-BLAST, diagonal BLAST; iterative interface)
 Frequency-Selective MIMO Communications
 Smart Antennas
 MIMO Channel Estimation
 MIMO Channel Capacity
Multi-Carrier Modulation and OFDM
 Data Transmission using Multiple Carriers
 Multicarrier Modulation with Overlapping Subchannels
 Mitigation of Subcarrier Fading: frequency equalization, precoding, adaptive loading
 OFDM: generation of subcarriers using the IFFT, guard time and cyclic extension, windowing,
choice of OFDM parameters, OFDM signal processing, implementation complexity of OFDM
versus single-carrier modulation, OFDM system model, channel modeling for OFDM systems,
applications of OFDM (DAB, DVB, WLANs)
 Vector Coding
 Challenges in Multicarrier Systems

Text Book
MIMO Wireless Communications, Ezio Biglieri, Robert Calderbank, Anthony Constantinides, Andrea
Goldsmith, Arogyaswami Paulraj, H. Vincent Poor, Cambridge University Press, April 2010.

Reference Books
1. MIMO Wireless Networks: Channels, Techniques and Standards for Multi-Antenna, Multi-User and
Multi-Cell Systems, Bruno Clerckx, Claude Oestges, Academic Press, 23-Jan-2013.

2. MIMO System Technology for Wireless Communications, George Tsoulos, CRC Press, 03-Oct-
2018.

Contents
Introduction to Introduction to wireless communication systems and wireless channels, SISO channels,
MIMO channels.
MIMO channel capacity, MIMO channel Matrix, Single-user MIMO, Multi-user MIMO.
Precoding design, Channel estimation on the transmitter side, A transmitter structure.
Multi user receiver design, Multiple-access MIMO systems, Iterative space–time multi-user detection.
Multi user MIMO, Mathematical model for Multi user MIMO system, channel capacity of Multi user
MIMO system, transmission methods for broadcast channel.