Radio Technologies and Concepts for IMT-Advanced presents the findings of the Wireless World Initiative New Radio (WINNER) project in Framework Program 6 of the European Commission. It provides an insight into the key concepts and technologies for the IMT-Advanced radio interface, based on the collaborative research of manufacturers, network operators, research centres and universities within WINNER. The book covers the fundamental radio characteristics of a typical 4G wireless communication system, focusing on the transceiver’s chain from the physical layer to layers 2 and 3. Starting by defining realistic and futuristic usage scenarios, the authors provide in-depth discussion of key technologies including modulation and coding, link level procedures, spatial-temporal processing, multiple access schemes and inter-cell interference mitigation, channel estimation and newly developed channel models. Finally, a cost assessment and optimisation methodology is developed for different deployment concepts in order to assess a wireless system in a condition close to reality. The book provides an important system-level approach to the latest radio technologies in the field, and evaluates IMT-Advanced research in relation to international standardisation.

• Presents the research findings of IMT-Advanced radio interface from the
• WINNER project
• Covers the latest concepts for relaying, multiple access, radio resource control,  flexible spectrum use, and ITU-R spectrum demand calculation
• Examines the most recent Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques, and Distributed Antenna Systems (Coordinated Multipoint Transmissions)
• Describes a 4G system concept and all major building blocks
• Provides 4G propagation models and system-level evaluation methodologies

Martin Döttling, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany.

Dr Werner Mohr, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Dr Mohr is Head of Research Alliances at NSN, Germany.

Afif Osseiran of Ericsson, Sweden
Afif is a Senior Research Engineer in Wireless Access Network at Ericsson Research, Sweden.
The authors are all current WINNER Work package leaders.