Distributed Antenna Systems: Open Architecture for Future Wireless Communications

The rapid growth in mobile communications has led to an increasing demand for wideband high data rate communications services. In recent years, the Distributed Antenna System (DAS) has emerged as a promising candidate beyond 3G and 4G mobile communications. Distributed Antenna Systems: Open Architecture for Future Wireless Communications is a comprehensive technical guide that covers the fundamental concepts, recent advances and open issues of the DAS. The topic is explored with various key challenges in diverse scenarios, including architecture, capacity, connectivity, scalability, medium access control, scheduling, dynamic channel assignment and cross-layer optimization. The primary focus of this book is the introduction of concepts, effective protocols, system integration, performance analysis techniques, simulations and experiments, and more importantly, future research directions in the DAS. The first part of the book introduces DAS fundamentals, including channel models and theoretical issues, examining the capacity of the DAS with different structures. Concentrating on the MAC and protocols for the DAS, the second part of the book includes information on distributed signal processing, optimal resource allocation, cooperative MAC protocols, cross layer design, and distributed organization. The third part presents case studies and applications of the DAS, including experiment, RF engineering, and applications.

About the Editors

Honglin Hu received his Ph.D. in communications and information systems in 2004 from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, China. From July 2004 to January 2006, he worked for Future Radio, Siemens AG Communications in Munich, Germany. In January 2006, he joined the Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications (SHRCWC), which is also known as the International Center for Wireless Collaborative Research (WirelessCoRe). Dr. Hu also serves as an associate professor at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT) in the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), where his main focus is on international standardization and other collaborative activities. Moreover, he is a member of IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, and IEEE TCPC. He also serves as a member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE WirelessCom 2005, IEEE ICC 2006, IEEE IWCMC 2006, IEEE/ACM Q2SWinet 2006, IEEE ICC 2007, IEEE WCNC 2007. Since June 2006, he has served on the editorial board of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, John Wiley & Sons.

Yan Zhang received his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From August 2004 to May 2006, he worked with NICT Singapore, a branch of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Since August 2006, he has worked for Simula Research Laboratory, Norway (simula.no/). He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Network Security. He is also currently serving as a book series editor for the “Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications” series (Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group) and has also served as co-editor for several books: Resource, Mobility and Security Management in Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications; Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards; Millimeter-Wave Technology in Wireless PAN, LAN and MAN; Distributed Antenna Systems: Open Architecture for Future Wireless Communications; Security in Wireless Mesh Networks; Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks: WiMAX and Beyond; Wireless Quality-of-Service: Techniques, Standards and Applications; Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications; Internet of Things: From RFID to the Next-Generation Pervasive Networked Systems and Handbook of Research on Wireless Security. Dr. Zhang served as program co-chair for IEEE PCAC’07, special track co-chair for “Mobility and Resource Management in Wireless/Mobile Networks” in ITNG 2007, special session co-chair for “Wireless Mesh Networks” in PDCS 2006, and is a member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE AINA 2007, IEEE CCNC 2007, WASA’06, IEEE GLOBECOM’2006, IEEE WoNGeN’06, IEEE IWCMC 2006, IEEE IWCMC 2005, ITST 2006, and ITST 2005. His research interests include resource, mobility, energy, and security management in wireless networks and mobile computing. He is a member of IEEE and IEEE ComSoc.

Jijun Luo received his M. Eng. from Shandong University, China 1999 and M. Sc. from Munich University of Technology, Germany in 2000, respectively. He joined Siemens in 2000 and received his Doktor-Ingenieur (Dr. Ing.) degree in 2006 from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He has published more than a hundred technical papers, co-edited three books and holds many patents. His technical contributions mainly cover his findings on wireless communication system design, radio protocol, system architecture, radio resource management, signal processing, coding, and modulation technologies. He is active in international academy and research activities. Dr. Luo has been nominated as the session chair of many high level technical conferences organized by IEEE and European research organizations. He leads research activities in several European research projects and is active in international industrial standardization bodies. His main interests are transmission technologies, radio resource management, reconfigurability (software defined radio), and radio system design. He is also a member of IEEE.