Antenna-diversity techniques have been shown to increase the channel capacity in wireless communications to an extent that cannot be matched by any other feasible technique. Recent developments of transmit diversity combined with error-control coding and signal processing techniques have introduced new space-time coding schemes and layered space-time architectures. This tutorial describes the state-of-the art in multiple-antenna transmission, coding, and signal-processing techniques, focusing on capacity evaluations and code design and performance.

Biography

EZIO BIGLIERI was born in Aosta (Italy). He received his training in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), where he received his Dr. Engr. Degree in 1967.

From 1968 to 1975 he was with the Istituto di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino, first as a Research Engineer, then as an Associate Professor (jointly with Istituto Matematico). In 1975 he was made a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Napoli (Italy). In 1977 he returned to Politecnico di Torino as a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. From 1987 to 1990 he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1990 he has been again a professor with Politecnico di Torino.

From January to June 1977 he was a Visiting Lecturer and Research Engineer in the Department of System Science, UCLA. He spent the summers of 1979 and 1982 working with the Mathematical Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and with the Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, espectively. In May--June 1984 he was a Visiting Research Engineer with the Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, and in the Spring of 1986 and of 1999 he was a Visiting Professor in the same Department. In February-September 1994 he was a Visiting Professor with the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France. In August 1997 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. In October 1998--January 1999 he was a Visiting Professor at Yokohama National University, Japan. From April to August 1999 he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, and from February to May 2000 he was a Visiting Professor with Princeton University.

In1996--1997he served as chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee. In 988, 1992, and 1996 he was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

In 1999 he was the President of the Society, and he is actually serving as its Past President. He was the general co-chairman of the "IEEE 2000 International Symposium on Information Theory," Sorrento, Italy, June 2000.

From 1988 to 1991 he was an Editor of the "IEEE Transactions on Communications," and from 1991 to 1994 an Associate Editor of the "IEEE Transactions on Information Theory." From 1997 to 1999 he was an Editor of the "IEEE Communications Letters," and, since 1998, he has been a Division Editor of the "Journal of Communications and Networking." From 1997 to 2001 he was the Editor in Chief of the "European Transactions on Telecommunications. Since 2000 he has been a member of the advisory Board of the journal "Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing." In 2000 he received, jointly with John Proakis and Shlomo Shamai, the "IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award," presented for the most outstanding survey, review, or tutorial paper published by IEEE in 1999, and the IEEE Third-Millennium Medal for outstanding contributions to the Information Theory area of technology.

Professor Biglieri is a Fellow of the IEEE.