Intended Audience
This course is intended for those seeking a fundamental understanding of how multiple antenna techniques work. This includes those in a systems engineering, sales engineering, network engineering, or verification role.
Objectives
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
■ Outline key benefits and challenges of multiple antenna techniques
■ Provide examples of various types of multiple antenna techniques
■ Explain transmit and receive diversity techniques such as STC and antenna grouping
■ Contrast a switched-beam system with an adaptive beamforming technique
■ Describe MIMO spatial multiplexing techniques
■ Discuss the implementation of SDMA
■ Give examples of multiple antenna techniques defined in emerging 4G cellular networks
Outline
1. Antenna Basics
1.1 Antenna Characteristics
1.2 Antennas in commercial deployments
1.3 Motivation for MIMO
2. Transmit and Receive Diversity Techniques
2.1 Introduction to Diversity
2.2 Receive Diversity Techniques
2.3 Transmit Diversity Techniques
3. Beamforming Techniques
3.1 Basics of Beamforming
3.2 Receive and Transmit Beamforming
3.3 Advanced Beamforming techniques
4. MIMO - Spatial Multiplexing
4.1 Basics of spatial multiplexing
4.2 MIMO and channel coding
4.3 Advanced MIMO Techniques
Putting It All Together