Signal processing for mobile communications

Signal processing (SP) is a key research area in mobile communications. The recent years have known a real explosion in research addressing different aspects of mobile communications signal processing. This area is continuously expanding with emerging applications and services such as interactive multimedia and Internet. SP has to meet the new challenges presented to future mobile communication systems such as very low bit error rates, very high transmission rates, real-time multimedia access, and differential quality of service (QoS). Today’s publications in this area are scattered worldwide across multiple journals and conference proceedings. Like any other discipline that seeks to reach maturity, nowis the time for mobile communications signal processing to be presented to the readers in a comprehensive way and in one single book that stands by itself. This book brings together most SP techniques, delivering, for the first time in the history of SP, an in-depth survey of these techniques in a tutorial style.