Space-Time Layered Information Processing for Wireless Communications

List of Tables. List of Figures. 1 Introduction. 1.1 Brief Historical Notes. 1.2 Turbo-Information Processing. 1.3 MIMO Wireless Communications. 1.4 Organization of the Book. 2 MIMO Channel Capacity. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Antenna Systems. 2.3 Channel Capacity. 2.4 MIMO Capacity for a Channel Known at the Receiver. 2.5 Channel Known at the Transmitter. 2.6 Summary and Discussion. 3 BLAST Architectures. 3.1 BLAST Architecture. 3.2 Diagonal BLAST. 3.3 Vertical BLAST (V-BLAST). 3.4 Stratified Diagonal BLAST (SD-BLAST). 3.5 Simulations on BLAST for the Matrix Rayleigh Channel. 3.6 Multirate Layered Space-Time Architecture. 3.7 Outage Capacity. 3.8 Simulation Results. 3.9 Summary and Discussion. 4 Space-Time Turbo Codes and Turbo Decoding Principles. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Turbo Codes. 4.3 Interleaver Designs for Turbo Codes. 4.4 Space-Time Turbo Codes. 4.4.1 Example Space-Time Turbo Codes. 4.5 Multirate Layered Space-Time (MLST) Turbo Codes. 4.6 Summary and Discussion. 5 Turbo-BLAST. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 T-BLAST: Basic Transmitter Considerations. 5.3 Optimal Detection. 5.4 Distance Spectrum of RLST Codes. 5.5 Iterative Decoding: Basic Considerations. 5.6 Design and Performance of SISO Detectors. 5.7 Simulations on T-BLAST. 5.8 Summary and Discussion. 5.9 Appendix. 6 Turbo-MIMO Systems. 6.1 Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation. 6.2 Turbo-MIMO Theory and ST-BICM. 6.3 ST-BICM. 6.4 Iterative Detection and Decoding. 6.5 Suboptimal MIMO Detection. 6.6 Simulation for Narrowband Turbo-MIMO. 6.7 Wideband Turbo-MIMO (ST-BICM). 6.8 Summary. Appendix 6.1. Appendix 6.2. Bibliography. Index.