Wireless communication basics for single-antenna channels:
Capacity of deterministic channels
Outage capacity for slow-fading channels
Ergodic capacity for fast-fading channels
Single-user 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
Uplink multi-user MIMO wireless networks:
Capacity region
Optimal transceiver designs
Multi-user water-filling to achieve capacity
Downlink multi-user MIMO wireless networks:
Sum capacity
Suboptimal transceiver designs
Zero-forcing, block-diagonalization
Multi-cell massive MIMO (mMIMO) wireless networks:
Channel model for mMIMO networks
LoS channel, NLoS channels - local scattering model
Impact of spatial channel correlation on mMIMO performance
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
Receiver design for multi-cell mMIMO
Multi-cell MMSE receiver, single-cell MMSE receiver, regularized zero forcing (RZF), ZF and MRC
Performance comparison of receivers in a realistic multi-cell set-up
Use and to Forget (UatF) spectral efficiency bound