High data rate communication for future wireles systems

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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.