Review of mathematical basics:
Linear algebra and information theory
Wireless communication basics for single-antenna channels:
Capacity of deterministic channels
Outage capacity for slow-fading channels
Ergodic capacity for fast-fading channels
Conventional 4G MIMO wireless systems:
Full transmit and receive channel state information (CSI)
Capacity of deterministic, slow, and fast fading channels
SVD-based capacity-achieving transmitter-receiver (transceiver) design
Water-filling power allocation technique to achieve capacity
Receive CSI alone
Linear MF, ZF and MMSE transceiver design
Non-linear ZF-SIC and MMSE-SIC receivers
Capacity optimality of MMSE-SIC receivers
Space-time coding
Diversity concepts
5G massive MIMO (mMIMO) networks:
mMIMO networks with ideal channel information at BS
Uplink and downlink system model
LoS and NLOS mMIMO – interference characterization and key differences
Channel model for mMIMO networks
LoS channel, NLoS channels - local scattering model
Impact of spatial channel correlation on SE
Channel hardening and favorable propagation
mMIMO channel estimation
High complexity estimator: MMSE
Low complexity estimators: element-wise MMSE, least squares
Difference in uplink and downlink channel estimation
mMIMO networks with estimated channel information at BS
Receiver design for multi-cell mMIMO
Multi-cell MMSE receiver, single-cell MMSE receiver, regularized zero forcing (RZF), ZF and MRC
SE comparison of receivers in a realistic multi-cell set-up
Use and to Forget (UatF) SE bound
Pilot contamination and its impact on mMIMO performance