Radio Technologies and Concepts for IMT-Advanced (eBook)

Radio Technologies and Concepts for IMT-Advanced presents
the findings of the Wireless World Initiative New Radio (WINNER)
project in Framework Program 6 of the European Commission. It
provides an insight into the key concepts and technologies for the
IMT-Advanced radio interface, based on the collaborative research
of manufacturers, network operators, research centres and
universities within WINNER. The book covers the fundamental radio
characteristics of a typical 4G wireless communication system,
focusing on the transceiver's chain from the physical layer
to layers 2 and 3. Starting by defining realistic and futuristic
usage scenarios, the authors provide in-depth discussion of key
technologies including modulation and coding, link level
procedures, spatial-temporal processing, multiple access schemes
and inter-cell interference mitigation, channel estimation and
newly developed channel models. Finally, a cost assessment and
optimisation methodology is developed for different deployment
concepts in order to assess a wireless system in a condition close
to reality. The book provides an important system-level approach to
the latest radio technologies in the field, and evaluates
IMT-Advanced research in relation to international standardisation.

* Presents the research findings of IMT-Advanced radio interface
from the

* WINNER project

* Covers the latest concepts for relaying, multiple access, radio
resource control, flexible spectrum use, and ITU-R spectrum
demand calculation

* Examines the most recent Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO)
techniques, and Distributed Antenna Systems (Coordinated Multipoint
Transmissions)

* Describes a 4G system concept and all major building
blocks

* Provides 4G propagation models and system-level evaluation
methodologies