ADC

Analog to Digital Converter

AGC

Automatic Gain Control

AWGN

Additive White Gaussian Noise

BER

Bit Error Rate

BLAST

Bell Labs Layered Space-Time

BPSK

Binary Phase Shift Keying

BSC

Binary Symmetric Channel

CCDF

Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function

CDF

Cumulative Distribution Function

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access

CSI

Channel State Information

CT

Cordless Telephone

DAST

Diagonal Algebraic Space-Time

DASTBC

Diagonal Algebraic Space-Time Block Code

D-BLAST

Diagonal BLAST

DECT

Digital Cordless Telephone

DFE

Decision Feedback Equalization

DPSK

Differential Phase Shift Keying

EDGE

Enhanced Data for Global Evolution

FER

Frame Error Rate

FFT

Fast Fourier Transform

FIR

Finite Impulse Response

GSM

Global System for Mobile

IFFT

Inverse Fast Fourier Transform

iid

independent identically distributed

IMT

International Mobile Telephone

ISI

Intersymbol Interference

LAN

Local Area Network

LDSTBC

Linear Dispersion Space-Time Block Code

LOS

Line of Sight

MGF

Moment Generating Function

MIMO

Multiple-Input Multiple-Output

MISO

Multiple-Input Single-Output

MMAC

Multimedia Mobile Access Communication

MMSE

Minimum Mean Squared Error

MRC

Maximum Ratio Combining

ML

Maximum-Likelihood

MTCM

Multiple Trellis Coded Modulation

OFDM

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OSTBC

Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code

PAM

Pulse Amplitude Modulation

PAN

Personal Area Network

PAPR

Peak-to-Average Power Ratio

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant

PDC

Personal Digital Cellular

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probability density function

PEP

Pairwise Error Probability

PHS

Personal Handyphone System

PSK

Phase Shift Keying

QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QOSTBC

Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code

QPSK

Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

RF

Radio Frequency

RLST

Random Layered Space-Time

RV

Random Variable

SER

Symbol Error Rate

SISO

Single-Input Single-Output

SIMO

Single-Input Multiple-Output

SM

Spatial Multiplexing

SNR

Signal to Noise...