Transmission techniques for emergent multicast and broadcast systems

 Content: Introduction Requirements for Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services Transmission Techniques to support Wireless Advances for MBMS Requirements Current and Emergent Wireless Systems Transmission Techniques for Broadband Systems Spread Spectrum Communications OFDM Schemes Single Carrier with Frequency-Domain Equalization Performance Comparisons between OFDM and SC-FDE Channel Estimation Channel Estimation Requirements Conventional Channel Estimation Channel Estimation with Implicit Pilots Channel Estimation for CDMA Transmissions Hierarchical Constellations  Constellation Design BER Analysis of Hierarchical M-QAM Constellations Channel Estimation Issues Multi-Antenna Systems  Channel Capacity for Multi-Antenna Systems  Transmit & Receive Diversity Gains  Spatial Multiplexing  Antenna Correlation  Channel Estimation   Multiresolution Techniques for MBMS Introduction to Multi-Resolution using WCDMA and OFDMA Objectives and Requirements Evaluation Methodology and Simulation Assumptions System Level Performance Results  Appendix: WCDMA Channel Model  Channel Characterization  Channel Model Construction   References  Index