Lajos L. Hanzo & Osamah Alamri 
Near-Capacity Multi-Functional MIMO Systems [PDF ebook] 
Sphere-Packing, Iterative Detection and Cooperation

Lajos Hanzo FREng, FIEEE, FIET, DSc received his degree in
electronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. During his 31-year
career in telecommunications he has held various research and
academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has
been with the School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair in
telecommunications. He has co-authored 17 books on mobile radio
communications totaling in excess of 10 000 pages, published in
excess of 800 research papers, acted as TPC Chair of several IEEE
conferences, presented keynote lectures and been awarded a number
of distinctions. Currently he is directing an academic research
team, working on a range of research projects in the field of
wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, the
European IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence
(VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and
academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. He is
also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer as well as a Governor of both
the IEEE Com Soc and the VTS. He is the acting Editor-in-Chief of
the IEEE Press. For further information on research in progress and
associated publications please refer to
http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk.
Osamah Rashed Alamri received his BS degree with first
class honours in electrical engineering from King Fahd University
of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1997,
where he was ranked first with a 4.0 GPA. In 2002, he received his
MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University,
California, USA. He submitted his Ph D thesis in October 2006 and
published in excess of 20 research papers while working towards his
Ph D degree with the Communications Group, School of Electronics and
Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. His research
interests include sphere packing modulation, space-time coding,
turbo coding and detection, multi-dimensional mapping and MIMO
systems. At the time of writing he is continuing his investigations
as a post-doctoral researcher.
Mohammed El-Hajjar received his BEng degree (with
distinction) in electrical engineering from the American University
of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon, and his MSc degree (with distinction) in
radio frequency communication systems from the University of
Southampton, UK. Since October 2005, he has been working towards
his Ph D degree with the Communications Group, School of Electronics
and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. He is the
recipient of several academic awards from the AUB as well as the
University of Southampton. His research interests include sphere
packing modulation, space-time coding, differential space-time
spreading, adaptive transceiver design and cooperative
communications. In 2008 he completed his Ph D thesis and joined
Ensigma in Chepstow, Wales, UK, as a wireless system architect.
Nan Wu received his BEng in electronics engineering in
2003 from Dalian University of Technology, China. He then moved to
the UK and received his MSc degree (with distinction) and Ph D from
the University of Southampton, UK in 2004 and 2008, respectively.His
research interests are in the area of wireless communications,
including space-time coding, channel coding and cooperative MIMO
systems. In September 2008 he joined the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) in the USA as a guest researcher
working on cross-layer designs.