Topical Outline
EE 7052: Advanced Communications

Tentative Topical Outline

• Introduction to Multi-Input Multi-Output Communications
• Single-User Channels
• Multi-User Channels
• The MIMO Gaussian Communications Channel
• Preliminaries
• Vector-Valued Random Processes
• Factoring the Spectral Matrix
• The full rank case
• The reduced rank case
• Linear Prediction of Vector Processes
• Stability and Minimum Phase for Linear MIMO Channels
• Direct-Sequence Code-Division Multiple Access
• A History of Spread Spectrum and CDMA
• Synchronous CDMA
• Asynchronous CDMA
• Spreading Sequence Design
• The Near-Far Problem
• Power Control
• Synchronization: Acquisition and Tracking
• The IS-95 Standard
• Optimal Multiuser Detection
• The Conventional Receiver
• The Individually Optimal Detector
• The Jointly Optimal Detector
• The MIMO Matched Filter
• The MIMO Whitened Matched Filter
• Maximum Likelihood Sequence Detection
• Suboptimal Multiuser Detection via MIMO Equalization
• Zero-Forcing Linear Equalization - The Linear Decorrelator
• Minimum-MSE Linear Equalization
• Adaptive Multiuser Detection
• Trained LMS and RLS Implementations
• Blind Multiuser Detectors
• Linear Prediction
• Decision-Driven Multiuser Detection
• The Decorrelating Decision-Feedback Detector
• THe Minimum-MSE Decision-Feedback Detector
• Adaptive Minimum-MSE Decision-Feedback Detection
• Partial Decision-Feedback
• Multistage Detection
• Successive Interference Cancellation