Multicarrier and Multiantenna Techniques, 5 op

Core content

• BASICS OF MULTICARRIER MODULATION:
  - OFDM principles
  - Effect and purpose of CP
  - Multipath channel effects and equalization
  - Peak-to-average power ratio problem and mitigation methods
• SYNCHRONIZATION AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION:
  - Effects of timing and frequency offsets
  - Phase noise effects
  - Pilot based and data aided channel estimation
  - Basic schmes for frequency synchronization
  - Basic schemes for symbol synchronization
• MULTIPLE ACCESS:
  - OFDMA
  - SC-FDMA, DFT-spread OFDM and frequency-domain equalization in single-carrier transmission
• OFDM APPLICATIONS:
  - 3GPP-LTE/LTE-Advanced
  - 5G New Radio
• DIVERSITY:
  - Forms of diversity (time, frequency, space)
  - Diversity combining methods and resulting performance
  - Outage probability
• MULTIANTENNA/MIMO TECHNIQUES:
  - Receiver antenna diversity
  - Basics of space-time coding
  - Beamforming
  - Spatial multiplexing;
  - Open-loop and closed-loop MIMO techniques

Complementary knowledge

• ADVANCED ELEMENTS
     Adaptive bit-loading, waterfilling principle
     Adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) schemes
     Diversity vs. AMC methods in system level considerations
     Improved channel estimation & synchronization techniques
     Multicarrier CDMA

• ENHANCED SPECTRUM LOCALIZATION:
     OFDM sidelobe suppression methods
     Filtered OFDM
     Filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) techniques and waveforms

• APPLICATIONS
     WLAN: 802.11a/g/n/ac
     Digital broadcasting: DVB-T -family
     ADSL, VDSL, Power-line communications (PLC)

• MULTIANTENNA TECHNIQUES
     Capacity analysis of different multiantenna configurations
     Massive MIMO concepts