Fading and Interference Mitigation in Wireless Communications

Stefan R. Panić received his MSc and PhD in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, Serbia, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. His research interests in the field of mobile and multichannel communications include statistical characterization and modeling of fading channels, performance analysis of diversity combining techniques, and outage analysis of multiuser wireless systems subject to interference. In the field of digital communications, his current research interests include information theory, source, and channel coding, and signal processing. He has published more than 40 SCI indexed papers. Currently, he works as docent in the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Priština, Serbia.Mihajlo Stefanović was born in Niš, Serbia in 1947. He received B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering (Department of Telecommunications), University of Niš, Serbia, in 1971, 1976 and 1979, respectively. His primary research interests are statistical communication theory, optical and satellite communications. He has written or co-authored a great number of journal publications.Jelena Anastasov was born in Vranje, Serbia in 1982. She received her M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, Serbia, in 2006 as the best graduated student of the generation 2001/2002. She is currently pursuing her PhD degree in the Telecommunications Department, as a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, Serbia. Her research interests are statistical communication theory, optical and satellite communications, and optimal receiver design. She has published several journal publications on the above subject.Petar Spalević was born in Kraljevo, Serbia in 1973. He received his B.Sc.and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Priština, Serbia, and his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Serbia. His research interests are statistical communication theory, optical and satellite communications, and optimal receiver design. He has published several journal publications on the above subject.

• Introduction. Modeling of Fading Channels. Correlative Fading Models. Performances of Digital Receivers. Single-Channel Receiver over Fading Channels in the Presence of CCI. Multichannel Receiver over Fading Channels in the Presence of CCI. Macrodiversity Reception over Fading Channels in the Presence of Shadowing. Evaluations of Channel Capacity under Various Adaptation Policies and Diversity Techniques.