Acknowledgments
This book is the outcome of many years of research and teaching in the field of signal processing and wireless communications.
We would like to thank many people from A1 (former Mobilkom and Telekom), as well as Kathrein for their steady support over a longer period of time: W. Wiedermann, W. Müllner, W. Karner, A. Ciaffone, T. Ergoth, W. Weiler, T. Baumgartner, J. Peterka, A. Kathrein, G. Schell, R. Gabriel, and J. Rumold.
A very special thank you goes to Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker, who supported many of our efforts via his Christian Doppler Laboratory “Wireless Technologies for Sustainable Mobility.” The HSDPA simulator was jointly developed with the ftw (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien). Many thanks for the support.
The work reported in this book required a lot of people that are usually not mentioned in publications, but without their administrative help we could not have done it: J. Auerböck, N. Hummer, W. Schüttengruber, B. Wistawel. Many thanks for your help.
Such a book would never have been possible without the constant support by the many helpful people from Wiley: T. Ruonamaa, A. Smart, S. Barclay, M. Cheok and including, G. Vasanth of Laserwords and P. Lewis. We cannot thank you enough.
