Christopher Robert Ward

A high spectral efficiency broadband mobile radio access system

This work focuses on the exploitation of fundamental wireless access concepts and technologies, to synthesise a broadband mobile wireless access solution capable of meeting the ever increasing demands for improvements in user data rates, network throughput, coverage and quality of service in future B3G wireless systems. The proposed architecture uses antenna array processing as a fundamental component of this overall system solution. The paper demonstrates how the combination of a MIMO OFDM air interface, antenna beamforming, advanced scheduling and other related technologies can achieve substantial system performance gains of at least an order of magnitude higher than current wireless systems.