Signal Processing in Wireless & Mobile Communications
Edited by Georgios B. Giannakis, Yingbo Hua, Petre Stoica, Lang Tong
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ07458

Volume 1, Trends in Channel Estimation and Equalization
Hardcover, pp. 417, USA $ 80.50,
ISBN 0-13-027162-4
http://www.pearsoneduc.com

Volume 2, Trends in Single- and Multi- User Systems
Hardcover, pp. 431, USA $ 80.50
ISBN 0-13-027190-X

General about the books

Signal processing has always a critical role in the research and development of wireless communication systems. As the demand for high capability system increases signal processing has an even more important role to play. This two-volume book, contains 20 chapters written by leading experts and provides an easy access to important research that we meet in this area. The book concludes with a subject index and editors' biography.

About the Volume 1

The first volume of this book focuses on channel estimation and equalization. Fast real -time channel estimation and equalization are essential in wireless communications. The traditional techniques for channel estimation and equalization use training data, which not only consumes a significant portion of available bandwidth but also requires a perfect cooperation between the transmitter and receiver. In recent years, the so-called blind techniques have been explored intensively in the literature. The blind techniques do not use any training data except for certain prior information inherent in the original strings of symbols, which hence saves the bandwidth and relaxes the relationship between the transmitter and receiver. Consequently, the blind techniques have a clear potential to increase capacity and reliability of wireless system. As a subject area, the blind techniques have had in recent years a very fast growing rate in the general field of signal processing communications. For this reason, the first volume of this book is devoted to blind (or semi-blind) techniques.

Content of chapters for Volume 1

The Volume 1 begins with a chapter written by J.K. Tugnait and relates to higher-order statistics methods in channel estimation and equalization. The second chapter presented by Stoica and Ng derives the Cramer-Rao bound for blind channel estimation problem. The third chapter authored by Loubaton, Moulines and Regalia introduces a versatile approach known as the subspace approach which often provides a good trade-off between computation and accuracy. The fourth chapter written by Hua deals with blind identification of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels driven by colored signals and presents one of the latest advances in the theory of channel estimation. The fifth chapter presented by Kristensson and Ottersten addresses the optimization of subspace based methods. The sixth chapter given by Ding is devoted to linear prediction and introduces a number of ways to exploit the whiteness of spread spectrum signals. The seventh chapter written by Garvahlo and Slock gives details concerning semi-blind methods and explores the compromise between a fully trained system and a fully blind system. Chapter eighth given by Tong, Gu and Ku concentrates on the geometrical approach and provides a new look at somke of classical techniques for symbol estimation. The ninth chapter written by Scaglione, Giannakis and Barbarossa is devoted to linear precoding and gives a tutorial presentation of this relatively new concept. The final chapter written by Casas, Endres, Touzni, Jonson and Trechler concentrates on decision feedback equalization and brings the reader back to the classic equalization approach for which there is a rich body of theory and applications.

About the Volume 2

The Volume 2 includes samples of the most exciting applications of signal processing to wireless communication. The underlying theme of these articles is the emphasis on signal processing perspectives as key issues in wireless communications. This volume contains 10 chapters.

Content of chapters for Volume 2

This volume begins with chapter written by S. Barbarossa and A. Scaglione. It focuses and gives the general model of wireless channel. The second chapter written by Ganesan and Stoica deals with Space- time Diversity. In the third chapter, Alle- Jan van der Veen present a tutorial class of techniques that exploit the constant modulus (CM) property of communication signals for blind signal separation. In the fourth chapter Sidiropulos and Bro introduce a new approach to signal separation using the so-called PARAllel FACtor (PARAFAC) analysis. The chapter five, written by Michail K. Tsatsanis deals with the problem of multi-user detection for multi path interference channels in CDMA communications. In chapter sixth, given by Zhengdao Wang and G.B. Gianakis, the transmitter and receiver design of CDMA system in presence of frequency- selective multi path is considered. In chapter seven the authors Uei-Chiang Lai, Raiv Chandrasekaran, Richard E. Cagley and John J. Shynk outlined the class of multistage interference cancellation techniques for DS-CDMA systems. In chapter eighth, Qing Zhao, Jeffrey Qi Bao and Lang Tong take the view that the problem of collision resolution is one of signal separation. Two Chapters in this volume, ninth and ten, deal with synchronization issues. In chapter ninth, Vazquez and Riba present an estimation-theoretic treatment of carrier and timing recovery, for both, linear and continues-phase modulated signals. In chapter ten, Seco, Swindlehurst and Astely investigate synchronization problems in a multi-user environment using antenna arrays.

Useful book

This book is well written, valuable and timely contribution to modern communication. The organization of the individual chapters is almost identical: Each begins with short introduction, after that follows the central part where main topics a covered, and concludes with chapter Bibliography. In my opinion this book is good and authoritative. I enjoyed reading it. I highly recommend this two-volume book for experts in the field of wireless communication and for post-graduated students of communications.