LTE-Advanced and Next Generation Wireless Networks

About the Editors xv
 
List of Contributors xvii
 
Preface xix
 
Acknowledgements xxiii
 
List of Acronyms xxv
 
Part I BACKGROUND
 
1 Enabling Technologies for 3GPP LTE-Advanced Networks 3
Narcis Cardona, Jose F. Monserrat and Jorge Cabrejas
 
1.1 Introduction 4
 
1.2 General IMT-Advanced Features and Requirements 5
 
1.3 Long Term Evolution Advanced Requirements 11
 
1.4 Long Term Evolution Advanced Enabling Technologies 15
 
1.5 Summary 33
 
2 Propagation and Channel Modeling Principles 35
Andreas F. Molisch
 
2.1 Propagation Principles 35
 
2.2 Deterministic Channel Descriptions 41
 
2.3 Stochastic Channel Description 46
 
2.4 Channel Modeling Methods 51
 
Part II RADIO CHANNELS
 
3 Indoor Channels 67
Jianhua Zhang and Guangyi Liu
 
3.1 Introduction 67
 
3.2 Indoor Large Scale Fading 69
 
3.3 Indoor Small Scale Fading 83
 
4 Outdoor Channels 97
Petros Karadimas
 
4.1 Introduction 97
 
4.2 Reference Channel Model 98
 
4.3 Small Scale Variations 103
 
4.4 Path Loss and Large Scale Variations 117
 
4.5 Summary 119
 
5 Outdoor-Indoor Channel 123
Andres Alayon Glazunov, Zhihua Lai and Jie Zhang
 
5.1 Introduction 123
 
5.2 Modelling Principles 124
 
5.3 Empirical Propagation Models 127
 
5.4 Deterministic Models 137
 
5.5 Hybrid Models 142
 
6 Vehicular Channels 153
Laura Bernado, Nicolai Czink, Thomas Zemen, Alexander Paier, Fredrik Tufvesson, Christoph Mecklenbrauker and Andreas F. Molisch
 
6.1 Introduction 153
 
6.2 Radio Channel Measurements 154
 
6.3 Vehicular Channel Characterization 160
 
6.4 Channel Models for Vehicular Communications 171
 
6.5 New Vehicular Communication Techniques 180
 
7 Multi-User MIMO Channels 187
Fredrik Tufvesson, Katsuyuki Haneda and Veli-Matti

Dr. Guillaume de la Roche, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Guillaume de la Roche received the Dipl.-Ing. in telecommunication from the School of Chemistry Physics and Electronics (CPE) Lyon, France, an M.S. degree in signal processing (2003) and a Ph.D. degree in wireless communication (2007) from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Lyon, France.
 
Dr. Andres Alayon-Glazunov, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Andres Alayon-Glazunov obtained the M.Sc. (Engineer-Researcher) degree in Physical Engineering from Saint Petersburg's State Polytechnical University, Russia, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Lund University, Sweden, during 1988-1994 and 2006-2009, respectively.
 
Prof. Ben Allen, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Ben Allen received his PhD from the University of Bristol in 2001. In 2002 he joined Tait Electronics Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand, before becoming a Research Fellow with the Centre for Telecommunications Research, King's College London.