MIMO Wireless Communications over Generalized Fading Channels

Brijesh Kumbhani received the PhD degree from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (EEE), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2015. He completed his BE degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Dharmsinh Desai University (DDU), Nadiad, India, in 2010. Since June 2016, he is working as an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology Kota (July 2015 – June 2016). His research interests are in the areas of MIMO wireless communication and UWB communication systems. He has been involved in organizing several workshops under IEEE student branch. He has delivered talks on recent advances in wireless communications at various national level workshops and symposia. He is a reviewer of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS), AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications (Elsevier), and International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems (Inderscience). Since 2016, he is a member of IEEE, USA and overseas member of IEICE, Japan.Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum is a Professor in the department of EEE, IIT Guwahati. He received the Ph.D. degree from the School of EEE, NTU Singapore in 2005. Prior to joining IIT Guwahati in 2005 as a faculty member, he did Postdoctoral research from the department of EE, Pennsylvania State University USA (2005) and the department of ECE, IISc Bangalore (2004-2005). He has chaired several IEEE international conferences including NCC 2016, Guwahati (TPC chair), DSP 2015, Singapore (Session co-chair), AEMC 2015, Guwahati (TPC co-chair) and WOCN 2011, Paris (TPC co-chair), NCC 2011, Bangalore (Session chair), CMC 2010, Shenzhen (Publication co-chair) and NetCom 2009, Chennai (Program co-chair). He is an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications (Elsevier), Associate Editor of IET Journal of Engineering, Editor of Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (Korean Society for Internet Information) and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems (Inderscience). He is the recipient of Best Work-in-Progress, IEEE International Conference on Accessibility to Digital World (2016), IETE M. Rathore Memorial Award (2015), Senior Engineer's Forum of Greater Guwahati Young Engineer Award (2011), Dept. of Science & Technology India (SERC) Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists (2007-2010) and NTU Research Scholarship from 2001-2004. His current areas of research interests are in microwave/millimeter wave antennas/circuits, UWB communications & MIMO wireless communications. He has guided several postgraduate students (5 PhD theses and 29 MTech theses), authored/co-authored 3 books and published over 110 research papers. He is a Life Fellow of the IETE, Optical Society of India, Antennas Test & Measurement Society of India, a Senior Member of IEEE, USA, a Life Member of Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, USA and a Member of ACM, USA and SPIE, USA.

• 1. Introduction to MIMO Systems. 2. Generalized Fading Channels. 3. Spatial Multiplexing. 4. Spatial Modulation. 5. Transmit Antenna Selection. 6. Space Time Block Coded MIMO Systems. 7. MIMO for 5G Mobile Communications. A. Appendix. B. MATLAB codes for generating results.