IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference
RAWCON 2003
Workshop - Monday WM1

Workshop WM1:

MIMO Communication Links: Introduction and Recent Advances
Monday, August 11, 2003
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Organizer:

Robert Heath, The University of Texas at Austin

Speakers include:

Ernst Bonek, Technical University Vienna
Kapil Dandekar, Drexel University
Dhananjay Gore, Qualcomm Inc.
Robert W. Heath Jr., The University of Texas at Austin
Mary Ann Ingram, Georgia Institute of Technology
Erik G. Larsson, University of Florida
Andreas F. Molisch, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and Lund University

The increasing demand for high-speed, high-quality mobile communication has fueled interest in spectrum-efficient multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication links. Systems with MIMO communication links use multiple antenna arrays, one at the transmitter and one at the receiver, to take full advantage of the spatial dimension of the propagation channel. When properly designed, MIMO communication links provide multi-fold increases in link throughput in addition to dramatic reductions in fading. Due to these advantages, MIMO capability is being considered for indoor local area networks, cellular multimedia data networks, and broadband fixed wireless access. This workshop will provide an overview of MIMO communication systems and will consider recent research advances in the area. Distinguished speakers in the area will discuss different aspects of MIMO communication including a general overview, multi-antenna channel modeling, space-time block coding, applications of computational electromagnetics to MIMO, and interference management in MIMO networks.

Topics to be covered include:

• Introduction to space time wireless communications
• Space-time block coding for wireless communications
• Wireless propagation channels for multiple-antenna systems
• Computational Electromagnetic Characterization of MIMO Communication Systems
• Managing MIMO Interference