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Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, 2012, 5, 243-244

http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ijcns.2012.55032 Published Online May 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijcns)

Review of the Book “Advanced MIMO System”

Chuan Gong

School of Physics and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

Email: [email protected]

Accepted April 20, 2012

ISBN: 978-1-935068-02-0

229pp Pub.date: September 2009

Price: $80

This book concerns most of recent advances of the mul-

tiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. An out-

standing feature of author’ approach is equal attention to

both the theoretical analysis and practical application

involved in this system. A series of important research

results from the polarized MIMO systems to antenna

selection in MIMO Systems are discu ssed in detail in the

paper, which are all well-organized and adequately sup-

ported by the elaborate figures and data.

In Chapter 1, the author offers a concise review of the

most known multiple antenna MIMO techniques includ-

ing single-user point-to-point systems and multiuser sys-

tems, and elaborates how multiple antennas help provide

diversity and multiplexing to the detection techniques,

which provides the adequate background knowledge to

the readers.

The Chapter 2 deals with the modeling, analysis, and

simulation of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)

narrowband fading channels for mobile-to-mobile com-

munications. Although the readers can acquire much

insightful information about the complex channel and

their statistical properties, the most important g ain of this

section is that it presents a universal framework for the

designers of future mobile-to-mobile communicatio n sys-

tems to verify new transmission concepts that employ

MIMO techniques under realistic propagation conditions.

After presenting a brief recall of the information the-

ory that is early used to inv estigate the capacity of multi-

ple antenna systems in the Chapter 3, the author focuses

on the synchronization framework and algorithms for

MIMO systems, especially for frequency synchronization

in Chapter 4, which will present very useful information

to the researchers who are interested in the frequency

synchronization.

Chapter 5 refers to the realization of th e STBC MIMO

systems which interest me mostly. As is well known, th e

performance of a wireless communication system can be

substantially improved by implementing MIMO systems.

MIMO signaling can improve wireless communication in

two different ways: diversity methods and spatial multi-

plexing. Diversity methods can improve the robustness

of the communication system in terms of BER by ex-

ploiting the multiple paths between transmitting and re-

ceiving antennas. Another MIMO technique, spatial mul-

tiplexing, focuses on the target of sending parallel inde-

pendent data streams and achieving overall system ca-

pacities.

Regardless of being used as diversity or spatial multi-

plexing system, the main drawback of any MIMO system

is the increasing of the complexity, size, and price that

scales with the number of antennas. Since antennas are

generally cheaper than relative electronic devices men-

tioned above, antenna selection becomes a promising

approach to reduce hardware complexity while capturing

many of the advantages of MIMO system. The antenna

selection not only reduces the number of required RF

chains from N to L, but also leads to significant savings.

There are many interesting topics about the antenna

selection worthy to be studied. In this chapter, the au-

thors investigate the application of antenna selection

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technique into STBC MIMO wireless communication

systems over Rayleigh fading channels and then provide

the performance analysis of such as MIMO systems. The

authors also carry out Monte Carlo simulation to further

detect the accuracy of both analytical expressions. All of

these materials are clear and understandable with the

elaborate figures and detailed discussion, which will help

the readers greatly to capture the major progress of this

area.

Subsequent chapters refer to the other topics of the

MIMO-OFDM channel estimation, polarization diversity,

Cooperative Systems for Sensor Networks and discus-

sion that concerns the impact of using MIMO physical

channel on the MAC and network layers.

I believe the book will present many interesting con-

tents to the readers and help them follow the recent pro-

gress of this new and booming area.

To order: http://www.scirp.org/book/

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