Table of content

• BEGINN
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Motivation
• 1.2 Nonlinear MIMO Systems
• 1.3 Contributions and Thesis Outline
• 2 System Model
• 2.1 Linear MIMO
• 2.2 Nonlinear MIMO
• 3 Information Theoretic Limits
• 3.1 Rates with Perfect Channel State Information
• 3.2 Rates with Noisy Channel State Information
• 3.3 Numerical Evaluation
• 3.4 Fundamental Characteristics of Nonlinear MIMO
• 4 Modulation and Maximum Likelihood Detection
• 4.1 Modulation
• 4.2 Maximum Likelihood Detection
• 4.3 Spatial Multiplexing and Diversity
• 4.4 Performance Results
• 4.5 Conclusive Remarks
• 5 Channel Estimation
• 5.1 Channel Estimation for Amplitude Detection
• 5.2 Channel Estimation for Phase Detection
• 5.3 Conclusive Remarks
• 6 sMILE: MIMO Amplitude Detection Test Bed
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Transmit Signal Design
• 6.3 sMILE Nodes
• 6.4 Software Receiver
• 6.5 Operation and Measurements
• 6.6 Conclusive Remarks
• 7 Summary and Conclusions