MIMO wireless communication When we started thinking about writing this book, we had been working together for more

than five years on the borderline between propagation and signal processing. Therefore, it

is not surprising that this book deals with propagation models and design tools for MIMO

wireless communications.Yet, this book should constitute more than a simple combination

of these two domains. It hopefully conveys our integrated understanding of MIMO, which

results from endless controversial discussions on various multi-antenna related issues, as

well as various interactions with numerous colleagues. Obviously, this area of technology

is so large that it was beyond our aim to cover all aspects in details. Rather, our goal has

been to provide researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students with a comprehensive

coverage of radio propagation models and space杢ime coding techniques.