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(More customer reviews)First the good stuff:
(1) Chapters and sections are organized well.
(2) Reference lists at the end of each chapter are nice and comprehensive.
(3) This book is written in a much better style than Paulraj et.al.'s related book: 'Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communications'. The latter book is a self referencing piece of crap.
Hence the three stars.
Major problem with the book: Poor cut and paste job from the references without much thought, originality and correction. Here are some examples:
(1) Chapter 1 is a poor representation of Telatar/Foschini work on channel capacity with series of errors introduced in the text.
(2) Chapter 2 is a bad cut and paste job of Tarokh paper on structure of space time codes: Tarokh has a few mistakes in his paper, none of which are corrected here. Read the original paper. Authors attempted to provide a little extra material here (the exact pairwise error probability for space-time codes) but did not carry it far enough to give any insight.
(3) Chapter 3 is one of the best examples of conveying simple information in a nonsense manner. Most of the important results are cited without proof from Tarokh's Orthogonal Designs paper, e.g., 'The rate of a space-time block code with full transmit diversity is
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