Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communications

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Summary: Excellent introduction to the field!
Review: As a PhD student in this field wanting to get a good overview of space-time wireless communication, this book has proven invaluable. It places all the diverse research work and math in space-time comm in perspective using lots of motivation, intuition and nice figures, and identifies the important contributions to this field. For beginners, would highly recommend reading this to spending a much larger amount of time reading the increasing plethora of research papers. Overall, a great book for researchers to have on their shelves.

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Summary: A good advertisement for their own research
Review: I see this book as a collection of some of the works of the author and his research group. Buy it only if you are planning to join their smart antenna research group.
If u want to learn about MIMO and space-time coding systems, then this book may not be good.....no new or relevant material was conveyed in the first 100 or so pages..some times annoying..everywhere referring to their own papers and providing their own simulation results...
The book by vucetic is somewhat better than this, but also has some of the above mentioned drawbacks.... too much of material from their own papers, instead of explaining standard techniques, somewhat biased..
To learn about MIMO and spacetime, in my opinion as of now there is no good book and actually u dont need one...Just start with the papers by taletar (his course notes are great and available on the web) , foschini, alamouti, tarokh, calderbank, seshadri etal, u should be fine...this book by paulraj and also the one by vucetic, can be compactly replaced by taletars course notes and some of the above mentioned papers..Final advice: dont buy, check it out from library if possible....I gave one star for the reasonable price and for the attempt

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Summary: A confused collection of papers.
Review: May be it could be better to name this book a collection of papers and theses. I recommend reading papers, themselves; as there is no good book on space time coding and MIMO yet. These paper collections are biased.

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Summary: Excellent Intro
Review: This book is a very good introduction to space time wireless communications. It's comprehensive and gives a good overview of the field for beginners.