High data rate communication for future wireles systems

不列颠哥伦比亚省无线创新网络（WinBC）最近的一项调查发现，不列颠哥伦比亚省（BC）的无线通信部门销售额总计10亿美元，超过50%的公司是在1999年之后成立的。此外，75%的员工拥有大学学位，其中24%拥有研究生学位。这清楚地表明了无线通信行业对加拿大，特别是不列颠哥伦比亚省的重要性。然而，只有高质量的研究为其产品提供新的想法和高素质的人才，加拿大通信业才能保持国际竞争力。拟议的研究计划是精心设计的，以满足这些需求。此外，尽管在过去的几年中，我们已经目睹了无线通信领域的几个重大进展，为了满足对高速无线通信仍呈指数增长的需求并提高无线服务的质量，必须克服更多的科学和技术挑战。特别感兴趣的是使未来无线通信系统能够更好地利用可用资源（空间、时间、频率、功率等）比现有的。本研究计画针对多天线系统设计与分析中最迫切的问题，包含三个部分。特别地，我们将研究（a）在发射机处利用部分信道知识的新技术，（B）使网络的不同用户能够有效合作的新颖信令方案，及（c）分析及设计非-高斯噪声和干扰环境。拟议研究的目标是提供基础理论和技术，将产生持久的影响，无线通信领域，导致新的或改进的产品，并将用于其他研究人员和工程师。虽然我们不关注特定的系统或标准，但许多预期的结果将直接或间接地适用于现有或未来的无线标准。

A recent survey by the Wireless Innovation Network in British Columbia (WinBC) found that the wireless communication sector sales in British Columbia (BC) total $1B and over 50 % of the companies started after 1999. Moreover, 75 % of the employees had a university degree, including 24 % with graduate degrees. This clearly shows the importance of the wireless communications industry for Canada and for BC in particular. However, the Canadian communications industry can only stay internationally competitive if high quality research supplies it with new ideas for its products and with highly qualified personnel. The proposed research program was carefully designed to address these needs. Furthermore, although in the last few years we have witnessed several major advances in the wireless communications area, many more scientific and technological challenges have to be overcome to satisfy the still exponentially increasing demand for high speed wireless communication and to improve the quality of wireless services.Of particular interest are novel and practical techniques that enable future wireless communication systems to make better use of the available resources (space, time, frequency, power, etc.) than existing ones. The proposed research program targets some of the most pressing problems in multiple antenna system design and analysis and consists of three parts. In particular, we will investigate (a) new techniques that exploit partial channel knowledge at the transmitter, (b) novel signaling schemes that enable different users of a network to cooperate efficiently, and (c) the analysis and design of communication techniques in a non-Gaussian noise and interference environment.The goal of the proposed research is to provide fundamental theories and technologies that will have a lasting impact on the field of wireless communications, lead to new or improved products, and will be used by other researchers and engineers. While we do not focus on a specific system or standard, many of the anticipated results will be directly or indirectly applicable to existing or future wireless standards.