ADVANCED CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE

MULTIUSER WIRELESS NETWORKS

Abstract
This document describes an Integrated Action within the Amadeus programme targeting at a
research collaboration between Vienna University of Technology (VUT), the Research Center
Telecommunications Vienna (FTW), and Institut Eurecom. The joint research aims at the
development of advanced analysis and design methods for wireless multiuser networks relevant for
future wireless communication systems. The integrated action will be executed via mutual
exchanges and visits of the personnel involved from all three institutions. We provide some technical
background information, describe the open problems to be addressed, and develop a concrete plan
for the collaborative research and publication efforts. The ability of the researchers involved to carry
out the proposed research is demonstrated by a summary of their relevant previous scientific and
management experience.

1. Introduction

An explosion of the worldwide demand for mobile communication technologies characterizes the
information society of the 21st century. Since the number of subscribers continues to grow rapidly, it is
expected that the current mobile communication systems will soon reach their capacity limits. The
research challenge is to realize wideband wireless and mobile communication systems enabling
multimedia services in extraordinary hostile propagation environments where the limited availability of
the radio frequency band is a major obstacle.
The most promising approach to achieve this aim is to employ multiple antennas at both the transmitter
side and the receiver side together with multi-carrier modulation (OFDM or MC-CDMA) for ad-hoc and
cellular network settings. In fact, recent investigations have shown that wireless systems using
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology can achieve enormous data rates (basically
proportional to the number of antennas) without increasing transmit bandwidth or power. It is therefore
no surprise that the interest in MIMO is extraordinary and that deployments of MIMO technology are
expected for 3rd and 4th generation wireless systems.
While most research efforts have focused on single-user (point-to-point) MIMO links, multi-user MIMO
networks have received far less attention. In this case, one must contend with energy limited handsets,
correlation between the MIMO sub-channels, and multi-user/intercell interference. These features affect
the expected capacity and results are still unknown on the optimum access scheme in this setting
(MIMO-CDMA, MIMO-OFDM, MC-CDMA) especially when taking into account non-ideal cases (such
as non-perfect channel estimation, non-perfect synchronization of the users, etc). In fact, the failure of
CDMA-based 3rd generation wireless technology is to a large extent due to a lack of understanding of
the fundamental principles governing multi-user wireless communications in cellular networks. It is of
primary importance to avoid similar mistakes in the future, especially in the case of non-
cooperative/non-centralized networks such as ad-hoc networks. This project intends to develop
advanced methods for analyzing and exploiting all degrees of freedom in a wireless network
(bandwidth, user, energy) and to study the fundamental principles governing the deployment of multi-
user wireless networks.

2. Research Goals

The project focuses on improving the efficiency of wireless multi-user communications via an
optimization of the wireless network using realistic channel modelling, information theoretic
performance analysis, precoding, network coding, and the optimization of network planning (node
deployment). The research will provide means for improving user data rates, reducing spectrum
requirements, and lowering emitted electromagnetic radiation, thus prolonging battery life time.

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To achieve these ambitious goals, the project aims at solving several important open problems in
wireless multi-user communications (described in the individual work packages (WP) below). The
different parts of the project are strongly related and have been conceived in order to provide low
complexity and user-friendly tools capable to compute and optimize physical layer performance
metrics. The ultimate goal is bridge the gap between physical and network level scientific communities.
In fact, in current system level simulators only single access communications are modelled; intra- and
inter-cell interference are treated as white Gaussian noise and potential gains of multiuser detection
and other physical layer improvements are ignored at the network level.
To achieve these goals, collaborative efforts are required that bring together the complementary
expertise existing at the three partner institutions.

2.1. WP 1: Capacity Analysis of Wideband Multi-User Networks

Within the project, the ultimate performance limits of wireless systems will be studied in terms of the
maximum achievable data rates. One objective is to assess the capacity of the wireless propagation
channel in wideband multi-user wireless networks (distributed MIMO systems) and to study the
associated eigenmodes and degrees of freedom (DoF) of the channel. Coherent (perfect receiver
channel state information (CSI)) and non-coherent (no CSI) situations will be considered as well as
scenarios with imperfect CSI. Further extensions to multi-cell situations taking into account realistic
intercell interference models are also planned. Recent work in this area relating to single-user and/or
single-antenna systems has been published in [Tel00, Med02, Chu02, Gal85, Rhe03].
These channel capacity investigations will be conducted on a theoretical basis combined with
experimental studies. The experimental part aims at extracting the desired channel metrics from
measurement data in a reliable fashion. The theoretical analyses, on the other hand, will be performed
by means of practically relevant stochastic channel models. Apart of using existing wireless channel
models, we will also develop new channel models that reliably capture various aspects specific to the
scenarios we are interested in (e.g. dispersion in the delay, Doppler, space, and polarization domain,
multi-cell environments with high user mobility, etc.) The channel models will be assessed with respect
to their ability to reproduce experimental results from the theoretical analysis. The expected findings of
this approach are as follows:
1) insights regarding the maximum achievable user data rates in wideband multi-user networks
2) a better understanding of the propagation mechanisms that determine the channel’s DoF and
capacity
3) design guidelines for precoding and transceiver optimization techniques.

Partners involved: VUT: G. Matz, A. Skupch

FTW: L. Cottatellucci
Eurecom: M. Debbah, D. Gesbert, D. Slock, N. Fawaz, R. Lacerda

2.2. WP 2: Precoding for Multi-User MIMO Systems

Precoding (or pre-equalization) for multi-antenna/multi-users systems is a very promising technique for
exploiting CSI at the transmitter [Cos83,Win04,Cai03]: High spectral efficiencies can be achieved while
at the same time receiver processing is kept as simple as possible [Pee05, Hoc05]. This is particularly
attractive in the downlink of multi-user networks since it allows moving computational complexity from
battery-operated mobile terminals to the base station (access point). In such a scenario, precoding
allows to realize MIMO gains even though the individual users act in a non-cooperative fashion. The
basic principle is to pre-equalize the data to be transmitted in order to compensate for the channel
distortions. Several linear and non-linear methods (including optimum vector perturbation precoding
[Hoc05], Tomlinson-Harashima precoding [Win04], and lattice reduction aided precoding [Win03]) have
been proposed to improve the overall system performance by reducing the degrading effect of boosting
transmit power. However, the (efficient) suboptimum schemes cannot exploit all of the available
diversity and they are significantly inferior to (computationally very intensive) optimum precoding.

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Within the proposed project, we plan to develop computationally efficient precoding algorithms that can
exploit a large part of the available diversity, i.e., that perform nearly optimal at a reasonable level of
complexity. A very promising starting point in this direction that we plan to pursue is the principle of the
line search algorithm that was proposed in [Art03] for efficient near-optimum data detection in (point-to-
point) multi-antenna systems. Furthermore we will investigate whether other lattice algorithms known in
the number theoretic mathematical literature can be adapted to this application. Another important
issue to be addressed in this context is the adaptation of the channel model to be applicable to a
distributed MIMO system.

Partners involved: VUT: G. Matz, D. Seethaler

FTW: J. Sayir
Eurecom: D. Gesbert, D. Slock, R. Lacerda

2.3. WP 3: Multi-Cell Analysis and Optimization

Until recently, the main research efforts focused on single cell wireless systems [Sha01, Ver99]. Today,
the interest of the scientific community shifts towards multi-cell systems and hybrid ad-hoc networks
[Zai01,Deb05,Gro02,Gup00]. The understanding of multi-cell and hybrid ad-hoc networks touches upon
fundamental information theoretic models that are not yet fully understood. Those comprise
combinations of multiple-access, broadcast, interference, and relay channels, potentially with MIMO
and time-frequency selectivity, as well as fundamental network information theory aspects.
The goal of this work package is twofold. On one hand, we will analyze and compare multi-cell and
hybrid ad-hoc networks from a theoretical perspective using the models and techniques provided by the
other work packages. On the other hand, special attention will be devoted to the design of tools able to
provide metrics of interest for link level simulation (e.g. output SINR, BER) in different scenarios
[Tse99, Eva00,Kir00]. The performance analysis will be carried out by using random matrix theory
[Bai99]. The asymptotic self-averaging properties of random matrices allow a terse description of the
system characteristics in terms of few “macroscopic” system parameters.
We will further address the following design issues that will benefit from the performance analysis of
multi-cell systems in different scenarios:
• Optimal power allocation. Conventional power control requires that users with smallest channel
gains transmit at the largest power level to render the received power of all users constant.
However, this increases inter-cell interference since the users with smallest channel gains are
usually the ones at the border of the cell (i.e., close to neighboring cells). We plan to design optimal
power allocation strategies in a multi-cell context that should result in a trade-off between the
required quality of service and the resulting inter-cell interference.
• Optimal base station deployment. In order to increase network capacity in hot spots, network
providers usually increase the number of cells. This again implies an increase in inter-cell
interference. Our research will address optimal base station deployment as a trade-off between the
increase in capacity and the increase in inter-cell interference by introducing additional cells in the
system.

Partners involved: VUT: G. Matz, A. Skupch

FTW: L. Cottatellucci
Eurecom: M. Debbah, N. Fawaz

2.4. WP 4: Network Coding

The past years have seen advances in the theory of wireless networks, where classical wired network
methodologies are difficult to implement due to the varying topology of the network and due to
interference. More recently, network coding has emerged as an alternative to routing with the potential
to make communication over networks both more efficient and more robust [Ahl00,Li03,Koe03,Koe02].
The principle underlying this new approach is that nodes in a (wired or wireless) network combine the

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information they receive to form codewords, which are forwarded along their outgoing links. These
"intelligent" nodes stand in contrast to the passive nodes in a classical network that only forward
information packets according to pre-defined routing tables, without altering the contents of the
packets. In wired networks, examples have demonstrated the potential of network coding to achieve a
higher throughput and robustness than would be possible with conventional methods. In wireless
networks, research in network coding is still in its infancy and there is burning need to investigate
practical coding techniques that can be applied to this scenario. In this context, it is to be expected that
variations of modern coding methods like Turbo coding, LDPC coding and its associated iterative
decoding algorithms will provide the tools to construct useful network coding strategies for wireless
networks.
In this phase of the joint project, we propose to combine FTW's expertise in wireless networks and in
modern coding techniques with the joint expertise of Eurecom, VUT, and FTW in channel modeling and
wireless network analysis and optimization to search and develop practical network coding strategies
for future wireless systems.

Partners involved: VUT: G. Matz

FTW: J. Sayir, S. Toumpis, G. Lechner
Eurecom: M. Debbah

3. Research Impact

The project seeks to set-up a new long-term (well beyond the time frame of the project) collaboration
between VUT/FTW and Eurecom to increase the transfer of knowledge and research tools as well as to
foster better understanding between the two teams.
It is the general aim to strengthen the technical and scientific expertise within the partner institutions
concerning the development and standardization of 4th generation (4G) mobile wireless systems. The
timing is perfect for such a purpose since 4G systems are currently a hot topic internationally with a lot
of open research problems and no standardization at the moment. It is expected that 4G roll-out will
gradually start after 2010. The general aim is to be achieved through the following:

• striking up a close, active collaboration between researchers with complementary expertise on a

variety of fundamental and important topics in modern mobile and wireless communications;
this will be supported by half-day tutorial courses to be given by the visiting partner at the
hosting institution
• educating six PhD students on cutting-edge topics in mobile communications
• increasing the international scientific reputation and visibility of Austria and France in the area of
wireless communications by publishing our joint research results in prestigious IEEE journals
and in proceedings of highly reputed, refereed international conferences
• multilateral know-how transfer and internationalization, through cooperation with various
national and international partners from industry and other research institutes, including EU-
funded collaborations.

We note that all three partners are already actively and successfully collaborating within the EU funded
“Network of Excellence for Wireless Communications” (NEWCOM), which will last until Sept. 2006 (the
successor network NEWCOM2 is expected to provide funding well beyond 2008). As a result,
significant synergy effects between the proposed Amadeus Integrated Action and NEWCOM activities
are to be expected.

4. Project Plan

This Integrated Action is intended to span the two-year period from January 2006 to December 2007.
All the members in the teams are young scientists (six of them aged less than 35 years, three of them
are women). This is in close alignment with one of the goals of the Integrated Action, namely, to

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encourage the participation of young scientists. This Integrated Action would allow the participants to
start a fruitful collaboration since, to date, no bilateral collaboration between the Austrian and French
institutions has existed on a formal level. It is planned to continue and deepen the cooperation after
Dec. 2007, most probably in the context of a multilateral research project within the Seventh
Framework Programme of the European Union. In order to implement the cooperation in practice and
to accomplish the goals of sharing expertise and providing cross-fertilisation of ideas, the partners will
adopt the following methodology:

• a total of 16 stays (see table below), of which 6 and 8 will be paid by Austrian and French
Amadeus funding, respectively, and 2 via other funding (e.g. NEWCOM)
• face-to-face meetings during conferences (see table below) and NEWCOM events (at least two
per year)
• distant cooperation via phone, email, and videoconferencing and progress assessment via
VUT/FTW/Eurecom web sites
• dissemination of results by means of jointly authored papers in journals and conference
proceedings
The planned stays and face-to-face meetings during conferences are scheduled as follows:

2006 2007
January Lechner (WP 4)

February Debbah (WP 1, WP 3, WP 4)

March Cottatellucci (WP 1, WP 3) Sayir (WP 2, WP 4)

Debbah (WP 1, WP 3, WP 4)
April Fawaz (WP 1, WP 3)
ICASSP 2007
Matz (WP 1, WP 2, WP 4)
May Slock (WP 1, WP 2)
ICASSP 2006
Gesbert (WP 1, WP 2) Gesbert (WP 1, WP 2)
June
SPAWC 2006, ICC 2006 SPAWC 2007, ICC 2007

July Skupch (WP 1, WP 3) Fawaz (WP 1, WP 3)

August Matz (WP 1, WP 2, WP 4)

September Lacerda (WP 1, WP 2) Toumpis (WP 4)

October

Seethaler (WP 2)
November Globecom 2007
Globecom 2006

December

The above table shows the planned schedule for mutual visits (along with work packages affected) and
face-to-face meetings (gray shading indicates visits of Austrian team members to Eurecom, no shading
indicates visits of French team members to VUT/FTW, italics indicates some flagship conferences for

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which face-to-face meetings are expected). Two visits (May 2006 and March 2007) will be paid via non-
Amadeus funding.

Cost Breakdown. The financial contribution applied for within the Amadeus Integrated Action from the
French side amounts to 4680,- € per year (9360,- € in total). The following table provides a breakdown
of the costs applied for:

2006 2007
Flight: 400,- € Flight: 400,- €
Travel 1
Stay (7 days): 770,- € Stay (7 days): 770,- €
Flight: 400,- € Flight: 400,- €
Travel 2
Stay (7 days): 770,- € Stay (7 days): 770,- €
Flight: 400,- € Flight: 400,- €
Travel 3
Stay (7 days): 770,- € Stay (7 days): 770,- €
Flight: 400,- € Flight: 400,- €
Travel 4
Stay (7 days): 770,- € Stay (7 days): 770,- €
Total 4680,- € 4680,- €

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51, no. 11, pp. 2808-2820, Nov. 2003.

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[Sha01] S. Shamai (Shitz) and S. Verdú, ``The impact of frequency-flat fading on the spectral
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 A. INFORMATION ABOUT VUT

A.1 General Information

The Institut für Nachrichtentechnik und Hochfrequenztechnik (INTHFT, Institute of Communications

and Radio-Frequency Engineering) is a legally empowered subunit of Vienna University of Technology
(VUT). INTHFT consists of about 50 people, including 7 professors.
INTHFT/VUT has been doing leading edge research in the areas of communication, digital signal
processing, radio-frequency engineering, and optical communications. Emphasis in research is on the
following specific fields:

• Signal processing for communications

• Adaptive antennas and MIMO communications
• Mobile communications
• Channel coding using turbo codes, trellis-coded modulation, and space-time codes
• Time-frequency and nonstationary statistical signal processing
• Adaptive and nonlinear signal processing
• Automatic code generation for DSPs
• Rapid prototyping
• Optical phased-array antennas for intersatellite communication links
• Wavelength-multiplexed optical systems;

At INTHFT, numerous research projects funded by industry (NOKIA, Infineon, mobilkom Austria,
ASTRIUM, etc.), the European Space Agency, and government agencies have been carried out.
INTHFT participated in several EC-funded projects (PHOTON, MOON in the framework of ACTS;
METAMORP). INTHFT has also been involved in various COST initiatives (e.g. COST 259, COST
273). It is an Associate Member of the UMTS Forum.
Current and past projects where Austrain team members participated and which are relevant to the
proposed Amadeus Inegrated Action are:

• the European Union 6th Framework Programme IST “Network of Excellence in Wireless
Communications” (NEWCOM)
• the project “Modern Harmonic Analysis for Wireless Communications” (MOHAWC) funded by
the Viennese Science Fund (WWTF)
• the European Union 5th Framework Programme IST project ANTIUM (Advanced Radio
NeTwork Identification equipment for Univeral Mobile communications)
• the project “Advanced Multicarrier Communications for Wireless Communications”, funded by
the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Detailed information about the Institute is available at http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at.

A.2 Curricula Vitae et Studiorum of VUT Project Members

Gerald Matz received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr. techn. degrees in electrical engineering and the habilitation
degree for ``Communication Systems'' from Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in Dec. 1994,
Dec. 2000, and Sept. 2004, respectively. Since Jan. 1995 he has been with the Department of
Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, where he
currently holds a tenured Associate Professor position. From March 2004 to Feb. 2005 he is on leave
as an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow with the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Ecole Supérieure
d'Electricité (France).

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He has directed or actively participated in several research projects funded by the Austrian Science
Fund (FWF) and by the European Union. He has published some 60 technical articles in international
journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. He was Technical Program Co-Chair of the 12th
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2004), a member of the Program Committee of
several IEEE conferences, and currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing
Letters.
Prof. Matz has been performing research in the areas of wireless communications (multicarrier
systems, MIMO systems, channel estimation, space-time algorithms for UMTS-TDD and DVB-T,
characterization and modeling of wireless channels, iterative algorithms), statistical signal processing
(nonstationary signal detection and estimation, spectral analysis, robust techniques), and time-
frequency signal processing (time-varying filters and channels).

Dominik Seethaler received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Vienna University of
Technology, Vienna, Austria, in 2002. He currently holds a Research and Teaching Assistant position
with the Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering, Vienna University of
Technology. He is working towards a Ph.D. degree with a dissertation on efficient algorithms for
wireless MIMO systems. He has published ten papers in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of
international conferences. His research interests are in wireless communications with emphasis on
detection, demodulation, precoding, and capacity analyses for MIMO systems.

Ana Skupch was born in Oct. 1978 in Caracas, Venezuela. In March 2005, she received the Diploma
in Electrical Engineering from Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. Her Diploma Thesis is
entitled “Free Probability and Random Matrices:Theory and Applications to MIMO Communication
Systems.” Since 1997 she is also studying Technical Mathematics at Vienna University of Technology.
From Sept. 2001 to Feb. 2002 she studied at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Bologna,
Italy within the Erasmus Programme. Currently, she is working towards a PhD degree in the area of
wireless multicarrier and MIMO systems.

A.3 Project Relevant VUT Publications

VUT Publications Related to WP 1 (Capacity Analysis of Wideband Multi-User Networks)

G. Matz and P. Duhamel, “Information geometric formulation and interpretation of acceleretad Blahut-
Arimoto-type algorithms,” in Proc. IEEE ITW-2004, San Antonio (TX), Oct. 2004, pp. 66--70.

D. Schafhuber, H. Bölcskei, and G. Matz, “System capacity of wideband OFDM communications over
fading channels without channel knowledge,” in Proc. IEEE ISIT-2004, Chicago (IL), June/July 2004, p.
389.

G. Matz and P. Duhamel, “Accelerating the Blahut-Arimoto algorithm via information geometry,” IEEE
Trans. Info. Theory, in preparation.

H. Bölcskei, S. Shamai, D. Schafhuber, and G. Matz, „OFDM system capacity for wideband Rayleigh
fading channels,” IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, in preparation.

A. Skupch and D. Seethaler and F. Hlawatsch, "Free Probability Based Capacity Calculation for MIMO
Channels with Transmit or Receive Correlation," to appear in IEEE Wirelesscom 2005, Maui, Hawaii,
June 2005.

G. Matz, “On non-WSSUS wireless fading channels,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, to appear
Nov. 2005.

D. Schafhuber and G. Matz, “MMSE and adaptive prediction of time-varying channels for OFDM
systems,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, March 2005.

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G. Matz, A. F. Molisch, F. Hlawatsch, I. Gaspard, and M. Steinbauer, “On the systematic measurement
errors of correlative mobile radio channel sounders,” IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 50, no. 5, pp.
808-821, May 2002.

N. Czink, G. Matz, D. Seethaler, and F. Hlawatsch, “Improved MMSE estimation of correlated MIMO
channels using a structured correlation estimator,” to appear in Proc. IEEE SPAWC-2005}, New York
(NY), June 2005.

D. Schafhuber, G. Matz, and F. Hlawatsch, “Kalman tracking of time-varying channels in wireless

MIMO-OFDM systems,” in Proc. 37th Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, Computers, Pacific Grove
(CA), Nov. 2003, pp. 1261-1265.

D. Schafhuber, M. Rupp, G. Matz, and F. Hlawatsch, “Adaptive identification and tracking of doubly
selective fading channels for wireless MIMO-OFDM systems,” in Proc. IEEE SPAWC-2003, Rome
(Italy), June 2003, pp. 417-421.

VUT Publications Related to WP2 (Precoding for Multi-User MIMO Systems)

M. Hartmann, G. Matz, and D. Schafhuber, “Transceiver design for precoded multipulse multicarrier
packet transmissions over time-varying fading channels,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM-2004, Dallas
(TX), Nov./Dec. 2004, pp. 2409-2413.

D. Seethaler and H. Artés and F. Hlawatsch, "Dynamic versus Conventional Layer Sorting for Nulling-
and-Cancelling Based MIMO Detection," to appear in Proc. Eusipco 2005, Antalya, Turkey, September
2005.

D. Seethaler and G. Matz and F. Hlawatsch, "Low-Complexity Soft Demodulation of MIMO-BICM Using
the Line-Search Detector," to appear in IEEE ICC 2005, Seoul, Korea, May 2005.

D. Seethaler and H. Artés and F. Hlawatsch, "Detection Techniques for MIMO Spatial Multiplexing
Systems," e&i, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 91-96, March 2005.

D. Seethaler and G. Matz and F. Hlawatsch, "An Efficient MMSE-Based Demodulator for MIMO Bit-
Interleaved Coded Modulation," in Proc. IEEE Globecom 2004, Dallas, Texas, Nov./Dec. 2004, pp.
2455-2459.

D. Seethaler and H. Artés and F. Hlawatsch, "Dynamic Nulling-and-Cancelling with Near-ML

Performance," in Proc. IEEE ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada, vol. IV, pp. 777-780, May 2004.

D. Seethaler and H. Artés and F. Hlawatsch, "Efficient Approximate-ML Detection for MIMO Spatial
Multiplexing Systems by Using a 1-D Nearest Neighbor Search," in Proc. IEEE ISSPIT 2003,
Darmstadt, Germany, invited paper, pp. 290-293, Dec. 2003.

D. Seethaler and H. Artés and F. Hlawatsch, "Efficient Near-ML Detection for MIMO Channels: The
Sphere-Projection Algorithm," in Proc. IEEE Globecom 2003, San Francisco, CA, vol. IV, pp. 2089-
2093, Nov./Dec. 2003.

H. Artés and D. Seethaler and F. Hlawatsch, "Efficient Near-ML Detection for MIMO Channels: A
Geometrical Approach to Approximate-ML Detection," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 51, no.
11, pp. 2808-2820, Nov. 2003.

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VUT Publications Related to WP3 (Multi-Cell Analysis and Optimization)

K. Kopsa, H. Artes, G. Matz, and F. Hlawatsch, “Multiuser space-time algorithms for synchronization,
channel estimation, and data detection in UMTS/TDD cellular communication systems,” IEEE Trans.
Wireless Communications}, submitted.

K. Kopsa, G. Matz, H. Artes, and F. Hlawatsch, “Bit error rate estimation for a joint detection receiver in
the downlink of UMTS/TDD,” in Proc. IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit 2003, Aveiro
(Portugal), June 2003.

K. Kopsa, H. Artes, G. Matz, and F. Hlawatsch, “Space-time algorithms for multiuser channel
estimation in the downlink of UMTS/TDD,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Communications (ICC-2003),
Anchorage (AK), May 2003, pp. 2406-2410.

K. Kopsa, G. Matz, H. Artes, and F. Hlawatsch, “Space-time synchronization in UMTS/TDD systems

with strong co-channel interference,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2002, Taipeh, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Nov.
2002, pp. 254-258.

B. INFORMATION ABOUT FTW

B.1 General Information

FTW was founded as a research institute at the beginning of 1999. Pursuing its strategic mission to
strengthen Vienna’s position as an important centre of technology, it implements cooperation between
science and industry. FTW employs 56 people from 12 nations. It is supported by the Austrian
government and by the City of Vienna as part of the Kplus competence centre programme. The
scientific activities of FTW focus on four particular fields:

• Information and signal processing

• Networking
• Economic and user aspects
• Security.

The research on Information and Signal Processing is devoted to the following topics:

• Multi-user communications
• MIMO communications, MIMO enhancements of High-Speed Downlink Packet Access in
UMTS, MIMO techniques for synchronised VDSL modems
• Ultra-wideband radio for low-power device-to-device communications
• Iterative receivers for CDMA and OFDM
• Multimedia coding
• Wireless ad-hoc networks

The basic concept of FTW follows a cooperative research model. Each project involves several
companies and so emphasises not only cooperation between science and industry, but also between
competing enterprises. Therefore, FTW has great experience in managing and controlling multilateral
research projects. It also has great experience in the organization of workshops and tutorials, and in
the dissemination of research results. FTW’s industrial partners include Siemens AG, Infineon
Technologies, Kapsch AG, and Alcatel. Other partners include network providers (Telekom Austria,
Mobilkom), small and medium enter-prises, and partners from academia. FTW participates very

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actively in ETSI TM6 standardisation activities and in several European research activities in the field of
Mobile Radio: IST-FLOWS, COST-273, Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), and NEWCOM.

Detailed information on FTW is available at http://www.ftw.at

B.2 Curricula Vitae et Studiorum of FTW Project Members

Jossy Sayir was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1968. He received his Dipl. El.-Ing. degree and his Dr.
Techn.-Sc. from the ETH Zurich in 1991 and 1999, respectively. From 1991 to 1993, he worked for
Motorola Communications Israel in Tel Aviv as a development engineer, where he was part of the team
developing the first commercial digital mobile radio ever produced by Motorola. His responsibilities
included simulation of the complete physical layer chain and ensuring that the development team would
fulfil the required 6 sigma quality criteria. He joined FTW in 2000 as a
senior researcher. Since 2002, he heads the Information and Signal Processing strategic research
project I0 at FTW. His recent research interests include information theory, turbo and low-density parity
check (LDPC) codes and wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. He has organized several international
workshops in the area of information theory and coding. He has authored around
20 peer-reviewed conference contributions. Since 2004, he has been a lecturer at Vienna University of
Technology teaching a course on "Theory and Design of Turbo and Related Codes".

Stavros Toumpis received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1997, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
in 1999, the M.S. degree in Mathematics in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering in 2003, all from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. From 1998 to 1999 he worked as a
research assistant for the Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science Team, providing operational support.
From 2000 to 2003, he was a member of the Wireless Systems Laboratory, at Stanford University.
Since August 2003 he is a senior researcher at the Vienna Telecommunications Research Center
(ftw.), located in Vienna, Austria. His research includes work in the capacity of wireless networks,
medium access control, and channel modeling. He is also a lecturer at Vienna University of
Technology, teaching courses on wireless networks and on stochastic processes.

Gottfried Lechner was born in Vienna, Austria in 1975. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from the
Vienna University of Technology in 2003. He was working as a software developer for information and
advertising systems as well as audio jukebox solutions from 1999 to 2002. Since 2002 he is working at
FTW as a junior researcher in the area Signal and Information Processing. He is also working towards
his PhD on Low Complexity Iterative Receivers with Vienna University of Technology. His current
research interests include iterative channel decoding, turbo and low-density parity check codes with
focus on finite blocklength and practical implementations. He authored around 5 peer-reviewed
conference contributions and several contributions to workshops. Furthermore, he shares responsibility
(with J. Sayir) for the lecture course "Theory and Design of Turbo and Related Codes" at Vienna
University of Technology.

Laura Cottatellucci received the Dipl.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude – A.Y. 1994) in Electronic
Engineering from La Sapienza University in Rome. Specialized in networking at Guglielmo Reiss Romoli
School for Advanced Studies (1996, L’Aquila, Italy), she worked in Telecom Italia (1995 – 2000) as
Design Engineer, responsible for technical design, development and implementation of data and voice
telecommunication networks. Since April 2000 she is working as Senior Research in ftw.
(Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien). Her research interests are channel estimation and data
detection for MIMO and CDMA systems, multiuser detection, and MIMO system capacity. Laura
Cottatellucci authored 16 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles. She is finalizing her
Ph.D. on low complexity multiuser detectors for randomly spread CDMA Systems at the Technical
University of Vienna.

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B.3 Project Relevant FTW Publications

FTW Publications Related to WP 1 (Capacity Analysis of Wideband Multi-User Networks)

Laura Cottatellucci and Mérouane Debbah, “The effects of line of sight components on the capacity of
MIMO systems”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, submitted July 2004.

Laura Cottatellucci and Mérouane Debbah, “On the capacity of MIMO Rice channels”, Proc. 42nd
Allerton Conf. On Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, Sep/Oct 2004.

Laura Cottatellucci and Merouane Debbah, “The effects of line of sight components on the capacity of
MIMO systems”, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Chicago, IL,
U.S.A. June/July 2004.

FTW Publications Related to WP 3 (Multi-Cell Analysis and Optimization)

Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R. Müller, “CDMA systems with correlated spatial diversity: A generalized
resource pooling result. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, submitted July 2004.

Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R. Müller, “A systematic approach to multistage detectors in multipath
fading channels”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, submitted Feb 2003, revised Dec 2004.

Ralf R. Müller and Laura Cottatellucci, “Joint antenna combining and multiuser detection. In Smart
antennas in Europe, Stat-of-art”, Stefan Kaiser editor, EURASIP book series on Applied Signal
Processing, to appear 2005.

Laura Cottatellucci, Ralf R. Müller and Mérouane Debbah, “Efficient implementation of multiuser
detectors for asynchronous CDMA”, Proc. 42nd Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control and
Computing, Monticello, Illinois, Sep/Oct 2004.

Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R. Müller, “A generalized resource pooling result for correlated antennas
with applications to asynchronous CDMA”, Proc. of International Symposium on Information Theory and
its Applications (ISITA), Parma. Oct 2004.

Laura Cottatellucci, Ralf R. Müller, and Mérouane Debbah, “Asymptotic analysis of linear detectors for
asynchronous CDMA systems”, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT),
Chicago, IL, U.S.A. June/July 2004.

Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R. Müller, “Multistage detectors for asynchronous CDMA”, Invited for
International Zurich Seminar on Communications (IZS), Zurich, Switzerland. Feb 2004.

Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R. Müller, “Asymptotic analysis of multistage receivers for multipath fading
channels”, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), page 243, Yokohama,
Japan. June/July 2003.

Marzia Mura, Werner Henkel, and Laura Cottatellucci, “Iterative least-squares decoding of analog
product codes”, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), page 44,
Yokohama, Japan, June/July 2003.

Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R. Müller, “Asymptotic design and analysis of full-multistage based
receivers for multipath fading channels”, Proc. of Winter School on Coding and Information Theory,
Monte Veritá, Switzerland, Feb 2003.

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Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R. Müller, “Multiuser interference mitigation with multistage detectors:
Design and analysis for unequal powers”, Proc. of 36th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals,
Systems, and Computers}, pp. 1948-1952, Pacific Grove, CA, U.S.A. Nov 2002.

Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R. Müller, “Asymptotic design and analysis of multistage detectors with
unequal powers”, Proc. of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), pp. 167-170, Bangalore, India. Oct
2002.

Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R. Müller, “Performance assessment of polynomial detector in MIMO
channels with measured data”, Proc. of IEE Technical Seminar on MIMO Communication Systems,
London, U.K. Dec 2001.

FTW Publications Related to WP 4 (Network Coding)

G. A. Gupta, S. Toumpis, J. Sayir, R. Müller, "On the transport capacity of Gaussian Multiple Access and
Broadcast Channels", WiOpt 2005, April 3-7 2005, Trentino, Italy

S. Toumpis, L. Tassiulas, "Efficient Node Deployment in Massively Dense Sensor Networks as an

Electrostatics Problem", IEEE Infocom 2005, March 13-17, 2005, Miami (FL), USA

S. Toumpis, A. J. Goldsmith, "Performance Bounds for Large Wireless Networks with Mobile Nodes and
Multicast Traffic", IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, 06-2004, Oulu, Finland

S. Toumpis, R. Müller, J. Sayir, "On the Transport Capacity of a Multiple Access Gaussian Channel",
Inter. Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, 05-2004, Oulu, Finland

S. Toumpis, A. J. Goldsmith, "Capacity Bounds for Three Classes of Wireless Networks: Asymmetric,
Cluster, and Hybrid", ACM Mobihoc 2004, 05-2004, Tokyo, Japan

S. Toumpis, A. J. Goldsmith, "Large Wireless Networks under Fading, Mobility, and Delay Constraints",
IEEE INFOCOM, 03-2004, Hong Kong, China

S. Toumpis, A. Goldsmith, "Capacity results for Asymmetric Wireless Networks", IZS 2004, 18-20
Februar 2004, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

S. Toumpis, A. J. Goldsmith, "Capacity Bounds for Large Wireless Networks under Fading and Node
Mobility', Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, 10-2003, Allerton, IL, USA

G. Lechner, A. Bolzer, J. Sayir, M. Rupp, "Implementation of an LDPC decoder on a Vector Signal

Processor", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 7-10 2004,
Monterey, CA, USA

G. Lechner, J. Sayir, "Improved sum-min decoding of LDPC codes", International Symposium on

Information Theory and its Applications, October 10-13 2004, Parma, Italy; pp. 997-1000

A. Bolzer, G. Lechner, M. Riener, G. Krottendorfer, "Implementation of an LDPC decoder on a new

vector processor architecture", Global Signal Processing Expo and Conference, September 27-30 2004,
Santa Clara, California, USA

G. Lechner, J. Sayir, M. Rupp, "Efficient DSP implementation of an LDPC decoder", International

Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 17-21 2004, Montreal, Canada

J. Sayir, "Why Turbo Codes Cannot Achieve Capacity", 2003 International Symposium on Turbo Codes
and Related Topics, 09-2003, Brest, France

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I. Land, P. A. Hoeher, J. Sayir, "Bounds on Information Combining for the Accumulator of Repeat-
Accumulate Codes without Gaussian Assumption", 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory (ISIT 2004), 07-2004, Chicago, USA

C INFORMATION ABOUT EURECOM

C.1 General Information

Institut Eurécom was founded on November 4, 1991 by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of
Lausanne (EPFL) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) in Paris. Since
1995, Politecnico di Torino is also an academic partner. The Helsinki University of Technology joined
EURECOM in 2001 as an additional academic partner. EURECOM is a graduate-level research school
that offers a 4-semester program in the area of Communication Systems and adheres to the ECTS
credit system. About 100 students at master level are accepted each year from 8 European schools.
Moreover, 35 PhD students are presently preparing their thesis work at the Institute where teaching
and research are undertaken in three Departments:
• the Corporate Communications Department with a focus on network security, network management
and agent technologies, protocols for high speed networks and Internet.
• The Multimedia Communications Department with a focus on multimedia networking, Web and
Internet technologies, automatic indexing of multimedia documents, speech recognition, video
representation and video coding.
• the Mobile Communications Department with a focus on digital signal processing for mobile
communications, multi-user information theory , 3 rd generation systems, wireless protocols, and
mobile ad hoc networks.
Institut Eurécom is located in the Sophia Antipolis Technopole in the South of France. It is a GIE
(Groupement d'Intérêt Economique), a consortium under French Law. Its industrial members are
currently Swisscom, Hasler Stiftung, THALES Communications, CEGETEL, France Telecom, HITACHI
Europe, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and Bouygues Telecom. The Institute has an
approximate budget of 7 million Euros of which one million are from research contracts. It has some 92
employees among, which 63 are scientists (10 professors, 10 teaching and research assistants, 10
engineers, 35 PhD. students) whereas 29 constitute the Computers & Networks department and the
administrative staff. Since its creation, the Institut Eurécom actively participates in several European
framework projects.
Eurecom has been deeply involved in FP5 and FP6 IST programs. The Mobile Communications
Department of EURECOM was involved in the FP5 IST program as a major partner of the Moby Dick
project (Mobility and Differentiated Services in a Future IP Network). It is also actively involved in
several industry/academia collaborative research projects in the framework of the French National
RNRT (Réseau National de la Recherche en Télécommunications). These projects are mainly related
to beyond-3G Cellular Mobile systems and their convergence with IPv6 networks (Specific Targeted
Research Project). Eurecom is also a key member of the NEWCOM Network of Excellence. Note
finally that Eurecom develops open-architecture multi-way real-time radio platforms (B3G,
MIMO/OFDM and UWB). The platforms are for use in publicly-funded research projects aiming at
demonstrating innovations at all protocols layers (RF to applications). The B3G platforms are also
used in the ongoing FP6 projects E2R and Daidalos Integrated projects while the MIMO/OFDM
platforms are being developed in the context of the WIDENS

Further detailed information on Eurecom is available at http://www.eurecom.fr

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C.2 Curricula Vitae et Studiorum of Eurecom project members

Merouane Debbah was born in Madrid, Spain. He entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
(France) in 1996 where he received the M.Sc and the Ph.D. degrees respectively in 1999 and 2002.
From 1999 to 2002, he worked for Motorola Labs on Wireless Local Area Networks and prospective 4G
systems. From October 2002, he was appointed Senior Reseacher at the Vienna Research Center
for Telecommunications (ftw.), Vienna, Austria working on wireless channel modeling issues. He is
presently an Assistant Professor with the department of Mobile Communications of the Institute
Eurecom. His research interests are in information theory and wireless communications.

Dirk T. M. Slock received an engineering degree from the University of Gent, Belgium in 1982. In 1984
he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for Stanford University USA, where he received the MS in
Electrical Engineering, MS in Statistics, and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1986, 1989 and 1989
respectively. While at Stanford, he developed new fast recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithms for
adaptive filtering. In 1989-91, he was a member of the research staff at the Philips Research
Laboratory Belgium. In 1991, he joined the Eurecom Institute where he is now professor. At Eurecom,
he teaches statistical signal processing and signal processing techniques for wireless and wireline
communications. His research interests include DSP for mobile communications (antenna arrays for
(semi-blind) equalization/interference cancellation and spatial division multiple access, space-time
processing and coding, channel estimation) and adaptation techniques for audio processing. More
recently he is focusing on receiver design, downlink antenna array processing and source coding for
third generation systems, introducing spatial multiplexing in existing wireless systems, fading channel
modeling and estimation, and OFDM systems. In 2000, he cofounded SigTone, a start-up developing
music signal processing products. He is also active as a consultant on xDSL and DVB-T systems. He
received one best journal paper award from the IEEE-SP and one from EURASIP in 1992. He is the
coauthor of two IEEE Globecom98 best student paper awards. He was an associate editor for the
IEEE-SP Transactions in 1994-96. He is an editor for the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal
Processing, for which he also guest edited two special issues.

David Gesbert is with the faculty of Mobile Communications Depts, Eurecom Institute, France. He
obtained the Ph.D degree from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France, in 1997.
From 1993 to 1997, he was with France Telecom Research, Paris, where he was involved in the
development and study of receiver algorithms for digital radio communications systems. From April
1997 to October 1998, he has been a research fellow at the Smart Antenna Research Group of
the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. In October 1998, he took part in the founding
team of Iospan Wireless Inc, San Jose, Ca.,a startup company designing high-speed wireless internet
access networks using smart antennas (MIMO), OFDM, and other state-of-the-art applied wireless
research (now Intel). D. Gesbert has published about 75 papers and several patents all in the area of
signal processing, communications, and wireless networks. He co-edited the 2003 special issue of
IEEE JSAC devoted to MIMO wireless systems and a 2004 special issue of EURASIP Journal on
Applied Signal Processing on wireless transceiver design. He is an elected member of the IEEE Signal
Processing for Communications Technical Committee. He's an associate editor for IEEE Transactions
on Wireless Communications and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
He and his co-authors won the 2004 IEEE Best Tutorial Paper Award (Communications Society) for his
2003 JSAC paper on MIMO systems, and the Best Paper Award for the 2004 ACM MSWiM workshop.
He is a co-author of the upcoming book “Space time wireless communications: From parameter
estimation to MIMO systems”, Cambridge Press, 2005.

Nadia Fawaz was born in 1982 in Antony, France. In Sept. 2002, she entered Ecole Nationale
Superieure des Telecommunications. Starting 2003, she joined Eurecom and received a joint diploma
in Electrical Engineering from Eurecom/ENST Paris. Her diploma thesis focused on asymptotic multi-
cell analysis in the CDMA setting. Nadia Fawaz is now working towards a Phd Degree in ad-hoc
networks and virtual MIMO schemes.

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Raul Liberato de Lacerda Neto was born in Fortaleza/Ceara, Brazil. He entered the electrical
engineering faculty from the Federal University of Ceara (UFC), Fortaleza/Brazil, in Mars 1999, and he
received the B.S. degree Diploma in January 2004. In Mars 2004, he entered the Master of
Teleinformatics Engineering in UFC and during the master course he went to France to make a stage
of 10 months. In October 2004, he entered the Master of Communications Systems in the University of
Nice (UNICE), Nice/France. He may present the dissertations of Master from UNICE and UFC
respectively in June 2005 and August 2005. From 2001 to 2004, He obtained an Undergraduate
Brazilian Scholarship to begin the research in the subject of Wireless Communications Systems with
focus on 3G and beyond communication proposals. In Mars 2002 to Mars 2005, he was a student
research member of the Wireless Telecom Research Group (GTEL/UFC/BR) that has a partnership
with the Ericsson Research Sweden. During this period, he participated in three projects with
respectively focus on MIMO transceivers, OFDM systems (HIPERLAN/2, HIPERMAN, WLAN, WiMAX
and 802.20) and MIMO-OFDM systems (Channel estimation, transceivers, multi-dimensional
adaptation). In September 2004, he went to make a stage of 10 months in Lab I3S/UNICE/FR with
focus on tensorial decomposition applied to communication systems. He is now working towards a Phd
in multi-user MIMO OFDM.

C.3 Project Relevant Eurecom Publications

Eurecom Publications Related to WP 1 (Capacity Analysis of Wideband Multi-User Networks)

Guillaud, Maxime, Slock, Dirk T M, "A specular approach to MIMO frequency-selective channel tracking
and prediction" SPAWC 2004, 5th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless
Communications, July 11-14, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal

Guillaud, Maxim, Slock, Dirk T M "MIMO frequency-selective channel modeling based on pathwise
dynamics" Asilomar 2004, 38th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November
7-10, 2004, Pacific Grove, USA

Medles, Abdelkader; Slock, Dirk T M, "Mutual information without channel knowledge at the receiver"
SPAWC'2003, 4th IEEE Workshop on Signal processing advances in wireless communications, June
15-18, 2003 - Rome, Italy

Medles, Abdelkader; Visuri, Samuli; Slock, Dirk T M, "On the effect of channel knowledge imperfections
at the transmitter on the capacity of MIMO systems" ISSPA'03, 7th International symposium on signal
processing and its applications, 1-4 July 2003, Paris, France

Cottatellucci, Laura; Debbah, Merouane, "The effect of line of sight components on the asymptotic
capacity of MIMO systems "ISIT'2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 27 -
July 2, 2004, Chicago, USA

Debbah, Merouane; Müller, Ralf R, "Capacity complying MIMO channel models" ASILOMAR'03, 37th
IEEEE Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 9-12, 2003,
Pacific Grove, USA

Cottatellucci, Laura; Debbah, Merouane; Muller, Ralf R, "On the capacity of MIMO rice channels",
ALLERTON 2004, 42nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing,
September 29 - October 1, 2004, Urbana Champaign, USA

Debbah Merouane, Muller R "MIMO Channel Modelling and the Principle of Maximum Entropy", to
appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory-June, 2005.

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Gesbert, David, "Multipath: curse or blessing? A system performance analysis of MIMO wireless
networks" Invited paper for IZS 2004, International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications,
February 18-20 2004, Zurich, Switzerland

Saadane, Rachid; Menouni Hayar, Aawatif; Knopp, Raymond; Aboutajdine, Driss, "On the estimation of
the degrees of freedom of in-door UWB channel" VTC' Spring 2005, 61st IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conference, 29th May - 1st June, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden

Menouni Hayar, Aawatif; Knopp, Raymond; Saadane, Rachid, "Sub-space analysis of indoor UWB
channels," EURASIP Journal on applied signal processing, special issue on UWB, To be published in
Volume 2004

Saadane, Rachid; Menouni Hayar, Aawatif; Knopp, Raymond; Aboutajdine, Driss" Empirical
eigenanalysis of indoor UWB propagation channels", GLOBECOM 2004, IEEE Global
Telecommunications Conference, November 29-December 3, 2004, Dallas, USA

Dumont, J; Loubaton, P; Lasaulce, S;Debbah, Merouane, "On the asymptotic performance of MIMO
correlated Ricean channels, " ICASSP 2005, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and
Signal Processing, March 19-23, 2005 - Philadelphia, USA

Eurecom Publications Related to WP2 (Precoding for Multi-User MIMO Systems)

Hjorungnes, Are; Gesbert, David; Akhtar, Jabran, " Precoding of space-time block coded signals for
joint transmit receive correlated MIMO channels", VTC' Spring 2005, 61st IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conference, 29th May - 1st June, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden

Akhtar, Jabran; Hjørungnes, Are; Gesbert, David, "Linear closed-form precoding of MIMO multiplexing
systems in the presence of transmit correlation and Ricean channel" Globecom 2004, 47th annual
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, November 29th-December 3rd, 2004 - Dallas, USA

Hjørungnes, Are; Gesbert, David, "Exact-SER precoding of orthogonal space-time block coded
correlated MIMO channels: An iterative approach," NORSIG 2004, 6th Nordic Signal Processing
Symposium, June 9-11, 2004, Espoo, Finland

Akhtar, Jabran; Gesbert, David, "A closed-form precoder for spatial multiplexing over correlated MIMO
channels," GLOBECOM'03, IEEE Global Communications Conference, December 1-5, 2003, San
Francisco, USA

Medles, Abdelkader; Slock, Dirk T M, "Linear versus channel coding trade-offs in full diversity full rate
MIMO systems, " ICASSP 2004, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing, May 17-21, 2004, Montreal, Canada

Medles, Abdelkader; Slock, Dirk T M, "Decision-feedback equalization achieves full diversity for finite
delay spread channels, "ISIT'2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 27 -
July 2, 2004, Chicago, USA

Eurecom Publications Related to WP3 (Multi-Cell Analysis and Optimization)

Bonneau, Nicolas; Debbah, Merouane, Altman, Eitan; Caire, Giuseppe, "Spectral efficiency of CDMA
uplink cellular networks," ICASSP 2005, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and
Signal Processing, March 19-23, 2005 - Philadelphia, USA

Debbah, Merouane, "Downlink CDMA: to cell or not to cell" EUSIPCO'2004, 12th European Signal
Processing Conference, September 6-10, 2004, Vienna, Austria

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Debbah, Merouane, "Capacity of a downlink MC-CDMA multi-cell network" ICASSP 2004 - IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May 17-21, 2004, Montreal,
Canada

Debbah, Merouane; Hachem, Walid; Loubaton, Philippe and De Courville, Marc,"MMSE Analysis of
Certain Large Isometric Precoded Systems" IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 49, May,
No.5- 2003

Debbah, Merouane; Hachem, Walid; Loubaton, Philippe and De Courville, Marc "Asymptotic
Performance of Redundant OFDM Precoders with MMSE Equalization", Proceedings of the 11th IEEE
Signal Processing Workshop, 2001, Page(s): 389-392

Kobayashi, Mari; Gesbert, David; Caire, Giuseppe, "Antenna diversity versus multi-user diversity:
Quantifying the trade-offs" ISITA 2004, International Symposium on Information Theory and its
Applications, October 10-13, 2004, Parma, Italy

Gesbert, David; Alouimi, Mohamed-Slim, "Selective multi-user diversity", ISSPIT'03, International

Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 14-17 December 2003, Darmstadt,
Germany

Bastug, Ahmet; Slock, Dirk T M, "A macroanalysis of Hsdpa receiver models" WCNC 2005, IEEE
Wireless Communications and Networking conference, March 13-17 2005, New Orleans, USA

Bastug, Ahmet; Slock, Dirk T M, "Optimization issues in combined chip and symbol level equalization
for downlink WCDMA receivers" Asilomar 2004, 38th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and
Computers, November 7-10, 2004, Pacific Grove, USA

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