Comparative study of the performance of mimo equalizers for wireless communication receivers

Thesis Overview

<p> </p><p><strong>INTRODUCTION</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>1.1 Background</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wireless communication is a rapidly growing segment of the communications industry, with the potential to provide high-speed, high-quality information exchange between portable devices across the globe. The dramatic development of wireless communication over the last few decades has been tremendous. In the field of mobile communication, the demand for better technologies has surged, from voice communications requiring a data rate of a few Kbps to mobile ultra-broadband communication with a data rate of 100Mbps (as specified by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>High data-rate wireless access is demanded by many broadband applications such as high speed computer networks, virtual navigation tele-medicine, and online education. Traditionally, more bandwidth is required for such higher data-rate transmission. Unfortunately, due to spectral limitations, it becomes impractical or at times very expensive to increase bandwidth (Li et.al., 2002). More so, increasing transmitter power for capacity to support high date-rate transmission is not a solution because mobile and other portable devices require the use of battery power, which is limited (Agrawal et al., 2012). In this case, using multiple transmit and receive antennas to form a Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) system for spectrally efficient transmission is an alternative solution.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>MIMO systems have been one of the proposed solutions for enhancing spectrum utilization while fulfilling the data-rate required by the future wireless services. A considerable increase in data throughput and link range can be achieved with MIMO system without additional bandwidth or transmit power.</p> <br><p></p>