Digital communication using multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
wireless links has recently emerged as one of the most significant
technical breakthroughs in modern communications. This work presents an
overview of some important theoretical con-cepts of MIMO systems. After
describing the basic ideas of MIMO transmissions, information
theoretical concepts like the system capa-city and the mutual
information for finite symbol alphabets of some prominent MIMO
space-time designs are investigated. An evaluation of the error
performance of these designs then leads to a more complete understanding
of MIMO system parameters. Finally, the derived system capacity and the
error performance is related to the framework of the
diversity-multiplexing tradeoff. Each chapter is rounded by a number of
simulations to deepen the understanding of the derived theoretical
concepts.