| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/C004132/1 |
| Title: |
Complex Random Matrices and MIMO Channel Capacities |
| Principal Investigator: |
Cowan, Professor C |
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| Department: |
Sch of Electronics, Elec Eng & Comp Sci |
| Organisation: |
Queen's University of Belfast |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 June 2005 |
Ends: |
30 November 2008 |
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211,748
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| Digital Signal Processing |
RF & Microwave Technology |
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We are in the midst of a communications revolution facilitated, in part, by advances in wireless communications, such as wireless internet and multimedia communications and leading to the next generation of wireless systems, i.e., the fourth generation (4G). As the wireless industry becomes ubiquitous and popular, the need for a high-data rate and large user capacity on a wireless platform is the key driver in developing robust communication techniques, which offer substantially increased information capacity. Note that the capacity of a communication channel expresses the maximum rate at which information can be reliably conveyed by the channel.The recent information theory result showed enormous spectral efficiency can be achieved through the use of multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) antenna system. This wireless communication system uses multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver ends. In this proposed research we will theoretically evaluate the achievable capacity limits of this MIMO system in the realistic practical scenarios. The theory of complex random matrices is a powerful mathematical tool that enables the computation of MIMO capacities for spatially correlated channels. We first study complex random matrix theory and then use these the techniques to investigate the performance of MIMO systems.
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