A concise review of the space time premise and its impact on modern wireless communication theory

  • Authors:
  • G. T. A. El Sanousi

  • Affiliations:
  • Omdurman Alahlia University, Omdurman, Sudan

  • Venue:
  • WOCN'09 Proceedings of the Sixth international conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In mid 90(s) researches of Paulraj\S. Kailath et at,E. Telatar and the historical research of G. Foschini\J. Gans "On Limits of Wireless Communications in a Fading Environment when Using Multiple Antennas"; instigated a new era the modern wireless communication. The research of G. Foschini\J. Gans led to what became defined as Space Time (ST) premise. Their study depicted mathematical models for optimizing spatial sharing of the physical link (channel capacity) through use of multi-element antenna MEA (space dimension). Use of space dimension opened new avenues to produce efficient coding and modulation techniques by exploring various combinations between spatial and the established time\frequency techniques. It has become a part of today's WCT necessities, that wireless designers acquire a profound understanding of this premise. This paper reviews the capacity limits in MEA channel, as expressed by G. Foschini\J. Gans and E. Telatar and the impact of their findings on succeeding developments in WCT field. The paper includes a brief description of two selected ST schemes; Multi-Input-Multi-Output with Orthogonal-Frequency-Division-Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) and a method to exploit the location diversity of Multiple Antenna Sites (MAS) for spatial multiplexing "SFN-MAP-TDD-MIMO- OFDM technique". Finally, paper predicts and discusses the next probable development roots in WCT.