Future Wireless Techniques

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Possess the knowledge of multicell cooperation and cooperative MIMO, and be familiar with some uplink/downlink cooperative processing algorithms.
• Understand the principles and technical challenges of full-duplex, and employ the capability to exploit the potentials of full-duplex for system design.
• Employ some skills for MIMO transceiver optimisation.
• Understand the principles of ultrawideband (UWB) communications, and be familiar with the technical solutions for deign of UWB systems.
• Be familiar with some optional techniques for MmWave transceiver design.
• Possess the knowledge of non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA), and the skills for designing NOMA schemes for application in ultra-densely deployed wireless systems.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The characteristics of millimetre wave (MmWave) channels.
• The principles of MIMO and its potential through the capacity analysis of MIMO systems.
• Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) as well as the related techniques for its implementation.
• The principles of relay communications as well as the typical relay techniques.
• Multiuser MIMO and massive MIMO.

Cooperative Wireless Communications:

• Principles of relay communications;
• Two-hop relay networks;
• Multi-hop relay networks;
• Full-duplex relay communications;
• Multicell cooperative communications: Uplink/downlink cooperative processing;
• Cooperative MIMO.

Duplexing and Multiple-Access Techniques for Future Wireless Systems:

• Overview of duplex techniques;
• Principles and challenges of full-duplex;
• Self-interference and self-interference cancellation in full-duplex;
• Full-duplex: opportunities for system design and implementation challenges;
• Non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA): principles, advantages, and implementation techniques for NOMA;
• Signal detection in NOMA systems;
• Sparse spreading CDMA and sparse code multiple-access, factor graph for operation of message passing algorithm.

MIMO, Multiuser MIMO and Massive MIMO:

• Fundamentals of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO);
• Capacity of MIMO systems, when channel state information (CSI) is known to trans-mitter, to receiver, or to both.
• MIMO transmission/detection techniques;
• Multiuser MIMO: principles, characteristics and transmission/detection techniques;
• Massive MIMO: principles, characteristics and transmission/detection techniques;
• Pilot contamination in massive MIMO;
• Implementation challenges and standardisation.

Millimetre Wave (MmWave) Communications:

• MmWave promise and applications - a new frontier;
• Basics in ultrawideband digital communications: ultrawideband signalling, modulation, coding, and equalisation;
• MmWave propagation and channel models;
• Beamforming for MmWave communications: Analog beamforming, digital beamforming and hybrid Beamforming.

Teaching and learning methods

Classroom teaching and 2 coursework.

Resources & Reading list

Journal Articles

J. Schaepperle and A. Ruegg (2009). Enhancement of throughput and fairness in 4G wireless access systems by non-orthogonal signalling. Bell Labs Technical Journal, 13(4), pp. 59-78.

Y. Saito, Y. Kishiyama, A. Benjebbour, T. Nakamura, A. Li and K. Higuchi (2013). Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) for Cellular Future Radio Access. Vehicular Technology Conference, 2013 IEEE 77th, (VTC Spring), pp. 1-5.

Textbooks

C. Oestges and B. Clerckx (2007). MIMO Wireless Communications: From Real-World Propagation to Space-Time Code Design. UK: Academic Press.

R.S. Zahidur (2015). Cooperative Wireless Communications and Networking Paperback. Scholars' Press.

A. Osseiran, et.al (2016). 5G Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

S. Haykin (1996). Adaptive Filter Theory. USA: Prentice Hall.

H.L.V. Trees (2005). Optimum Array Processing: Part V of Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory. UK: John Wiley & Sons.

I. Robertson, N. Somjit and M. Chongcheawchamnan (2016). Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Design for Wireless Communications. UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

L.-L. Yang (2009). Multicarrier Communications. UK: John Wiley and Sons.

K.J.R. Liu, A.K. Sadek, W. Su and A. Kwasinski (2008). Cooperative Communications and Networking. UK: Cambridge University Press.

T.M. Cover and J.A. Thomas (1991). Elements of Information Theory. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons.

D. Tse and P. Viswanath (2005). Fundamentals of Wireless Communication. UK: Cambridge University Press.

T.S. Rappaport, R.W. Heath Jr., R.C. Daniels and J.N. Murdock (2015). Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications: Systems and Circuits. USA: Prentice Hall.

Summative

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Referral

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Repeat

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