The past decade has seen many advances in physical layer wireless communication theory
and their implementation in wireless systems. This textbook takes a unified view of the …

Wireless technology is a truly revolutionary paradigm shift, enabling multimedia
communications between people and devices from any location. It also underpins exciting …

Assuming there are always sufficient data waiting to be transmitted, adaptive modulation
and coding (AMC) schemes at the physical layer have been traditionally designed …

Providing guaranteed quality-of-service (QoS) for multimedia applications over wireless
fading channels is challenging. To this end, we develop a cross-layer design for multiuser …

Adaptive modulation requires channel state information (CSI), which can be acquired at the
receiver by inserting pilot symbols in the transmitted signal. We first analyze the effect linear …

Adaptive modulation has the potential to increase system throughput considerably by
adapting transmission parameters to the time-varying channel characteristics. Crucial to …

We propose the scheme to integrate transmit selection diversity/maximal-ratio combining
(TSD/MRC) with multicarrier (MC) direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS …

We introduce an analytical method that uses a finite-state Markov chain (FSMC) as an error
model, for estimating the performance of adaptive modulation systems (AMSs) combined …

Scheduling plays an important role in providing quality of service (QoS) support for
multimedia networks. We propose a cross-layer scheduler at the medium access control …

The Nakagami-m parameter is known to capture the envelope distribution of various fading
channel conditions in wireless communications. The value of m is indicative of the severity of …