The mobile wireless channel offers inherent diversity by virtue of multipath and Doppler shifts. Multipath diversity is exploited via spread-spectrum signaling employed in code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. However, the RAKE receiver commonly used in CDMA systems exploits only multipath diversity, and consequently suffers from significant ...

Next generation wireless communication systems need to support access to multimedia data available on the internet. This universal wireless access to multimedia data requires data rates and quality of service that are orders of magnitude better than those available in current wireless systems. The two major problems posed by the wireless channel, ...