1st Edition

Transmission Techniques for Emergent Multicast and Broadcast Systems

    312 Pages 170 B/W Illustrations
    by Auerbach Publications

    Describing efficient transmission schemes for broadband wireless systems, Transmission Techniques for Emergent Multicast and Broadcast Systems examines advances in transmission techniques and receiver designs capable of supporting the emergent wireless needs for multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) requirements. It summarizes the research and development taking place in wireless communications for multimedia MBMS and addresses the means to improved spectral efficiency to allow for increased user bit rate, as well as increased capacity of the digital cellular radio network.

    The text highlights essential requirements for new services, providing a clear understanding of the corresponding fundamentals and theory needed to fulfill such requirements. Although the schemes and transmission and detection techniques presented are applicable to a wide range of digital communication systems, including wireless, cellular, and satellite, the text maintains a focus on multimedia services using multicast and broadcast techniques. It also:

    • Reports on important enhancements, including transmission techniques, receiver designs, and multi-resolution schemes for modern broadband wireless systems
    • Covers key aspects in the development of emergent services to support the requirements of new services
    • Discusses the transition from Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) to block transmission techniques
    • Considers advanced receivers such as iterative (turbo) equalization schemes for these techniques

    This complete resource includes coverage of Multiple Input–Multiple Output (MIMO), hierarchical constellations, multi-resolution transmission, macro-diversity principles, and different frequency reuse schemes. It also proposes advances for different propagation and multi-user environments, using both WCDMA and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). The text concludes by explaining how to effectively combine these techniques and enhancements for the purpose of implementing the evolved MBMS (E-MBMS).

    Introduction
    Requirements for Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services
    Transmission Techniques to support Wireless Advances for MBMS Requirements
    Current and Emergent Wireless Systems

    Transmission Techniques for Broadband Systems
    Spread Spectrum Communications
    OFDM Schemes
    Single Carrier with Frequency-Domain Equalization
    Performance Comparisons between OFDM and SC-FDE

    Channel Estimation
    Channel Estimation Requirements
    Conventional Channel Estimation
    Channel Estimation with Implicit Pilots
    Channel Estimation for CDMA Transmissions

    Hierarchical Constellations
    Constellation Design
    BER Analysis of Hierarchical M-QAM Constellations
    Channel Estimation Issues

    Multi-Antenna Systems
    Channel Capacity for Multi-Antenna Systems
    Transmit & Receive Diversity Gains
    Spatial Multiplexing
    Antenna Correlation
    Channel Estimation

    Multiresolution Techniques for MBMS
    Introduction to Multi-Resolution using WCDMA and OFDMA
    Objectives and Requirements
    Evaluation Methodology and Simulation Assumptions
    System Level Performance Results

    Appendix: WCDMA Channel Model
    Channel Characterization
    Channel Model Construction

    References

    Index

    Biography

    Mario Marques da Silva is a Senior Researcher at the Portuguese Institute for Telecomunications. He is also with NATO Air Command Control & Management Agency (NACMA) in Brussels, Belgium, where he manages the deployable communications of the new Air Command and Control System Program. He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering in 1992, and the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering / Mobile Communications from the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.He has been involved in several telecommunications projects, either as researcher or as project leader, including research, architecture, development, analysis, simulation and testing of networking, HF, V/UHF, satellite and cellular/UMTS communications systems. He is the author of several tens of international research papers and his research interests include several areas of Mobile Communications, namely WCDMA (Wide band Code Division Multiple Access, OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) and SC-FDE (Single Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization), Multi-User Detection, Interference Cancellation, Space-Time Coding, MIMO systems (Multiple Input, Multiple Output), Smart and Adaptive Antennas, Software Defined Radio and Mobile Ad-hoc network. He is a member of IEEE communications society and reviewer of several international publications.Americo M. C. Correia received his BSc degree in electrical engineering from the University of Angola in 1983, and his MSc and PhD degrees from Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST-UTL), Lisbon, Portugal, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. From 1991 to 1999 he was with IST as an assistant professor. He is currently a full professor with Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal. He visited Nokia Research Center from September to December 1998 as a visiting scientist. From September 2000 to August 2001he worked for Ericsson EurolabNetherl