Week 1: space-time propagation models, delay spread, Doppler spread, angle spread, antenna correlation, degenerate channels, polarization.<br>
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Week 2: MIMO/SIMO/MISO channel capacity, capacity with and without transmitter channel knowledge, deterministic channels, random channels, ergodic and outage capacities.<br>
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Week 3: influence of physical propagation environment on channel capacity, spatial correlation, line-of-sight component, cross-polarization discrimination, frequency-selective channels.<br>
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Week 4: diversity (spatial, temporal, frequency, code), analysis for Rayleigh fading, maximum ratio combining (use of channel knowledge).<br>
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Week 5: space-time coding (without transmitter channel knowledge), error probability analysis, rank and determinant criteria, space-time trellis codes, space-time block codes.<br>
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Week 6: spatial multiplexing, diversity-multiplexing tradeoff, space-time receivers.<br>
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Week 7: channel knowledge at transmitter (linear pre-filtering), partial channel knowledge, antenna selection.<br>
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Week 8: multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) for frequency-selective channels, MIMO multiuser channels (multiple access, broadcast).<br>
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Week 9: performance limits of MIMO systems, spectral efficiency, packet error rate, SNR. <br>
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Week 10: overview of MIMO technology in emerging wireless standards (e.g., IEEE 802.11n WLAN, IEEE 802.16 WMAN), student project presentations.<br>