Near-Capacity Multi-Functional MIMO Systems

Lajos Hanzo FREng, FIEEE, FIET, DSc received his degree inelectronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. During his 31-yearcareer in telecommunications he has held various research andacademic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he hasbeen with the School of Electronics and Computer Science,University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair intelecommunications. He has co-authored 17 books on mobile radiocommunications totaling in excess of 10 000 pages, published inexcess of 800 research papers, acted as TPC Chair of several IEEEconferences, presented keynote lectures and been awarded a numberof distinctions. Currently he is directing an academic researchteam, working on a range of research projects in the field ofwireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, theEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, theEuropean IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence(VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial andacademic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. He isalso an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer as well as a Governor of boththe IEEE ComSoc and the VTS. He is the acting Editor-in-Chief ofthe IEEE Press. For further information on research in progress andassociated publications please refer tohttp://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk. Osamah Rashed Alamri received his BS degree with firstclass honours in electrical engineering from King Fahd Universityof Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1997,where he was ranked first with a 4.0 GPA. In 2002, he received hisMS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University,California, USA. He submitted his PhD thesis in October 2006 andpublished in excess of 20 research papers while working towards hisPhD degree with the Communications Group, School of Electronics andComputer Science, University of Southampton, UK. His researchinterests include sphere packing modulation, space-time coding,turbo coding and detection, multi-dimensional mapping and MIMOsystems. At the time of writing he is continuing his investigationsas a post-doctoral researcher. Mohammed El-Hajjar received his BEng degree (withdistinction) in electrical engineering from the American Universityof Beirut (AUB), Lebanon, and his MSc degree (with distinction) inradio frequency communication systems from the University ofSouthampton, UK. Since October 2005, he has been working towardshis PhD degree with the Communications Group, School of Electronicsand Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. He is therecipient of several academic awards from the AUB as well as theUniversity of Southampton. His research interests include spherepacking modulation, space-time coding, differential space-timespreading, adaptive transceiver design and cooperativecommunications. In 2008 he completed his PhD thesis and joinedEnsigma in Chepstow, Wales, UK, as a wireless system architect. Nan Wu received his BEng in electronics engineering in2003 from Dalian University of Technology, China. He then moved tothe UK and received his MSc degree (with distinction) and PhD fromthe University of Southampton,UK in 2004 and 2008, respectively.Hisresearch interests are in the area of wireless communications,including space-time coding, channel coding and cooperative MIMOsystems. In September 2008 he joined the National Institute ofStandards and Technology (NIST) in the USA as a guest researcherworking on cross-layer designs.