This lecture provides a broad overview of fourth generation mobile communications and a basic understanding of candidate technologies for fifth generation mobile networks. Major focus is put on multiple-input multiple-output wireless network technologies and their application in mobile networks.
Notice: 1st lecture is on 18.03.
This lecture starts out with a detailed overview of fourth generation MIMO wireless technologies (3GPP LTE), in order to discuss on top of this the most promising and important technologies currently discussed for fifth generation mobile networks
- 4G and 5G Technology Overview
- Overview of basic LTE technologies
- Enhanced features of LTE
- Main 5G drivers and enabling technologies
- Single-User MIMO Transmission
- Review of SISO capacity concepts
- Single-user MIMO channel capacity
- Single-user MIMO transceivers
- Single-user MIMO for mmWave transceivers
- Multi-User MIMO Transmission
- MIMO multiple-access channel capacity region
- MIMO broadcast channel capacity region
- Multi-user MIMO with practical linear transceivers
- Massive MIMO
- Multi-User MIMO Transmission with Imperfect CSIT
- Multi-user MIMO with imperfect CSIT in LTE
- Multi-user MIMO with channel subspace feedback
- Multi-user MIMO with channel Gramian feedback
- Interference-unaware receive antenna combining for multi-user MIMO transmission
- Multi-user multiplexing with rate-splitting
- Multi-user MIMO with outdated channel state information
- The MIMO Interference Channel (IC)
- Single-input single-output interference channel
- Multi-input single-output interference channel
- Multi-input multiple-output interference channel
- Cloud radio access networks
The lecture slides are available for download (password 389193):
https://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/teaching/summer-term/389-193/
