SISO to MIMO: Moving Communications from Single-Input Single-Output to Multiple-Input Multiple-Output

Commercial radio technology has reached an inflection point, similar to the transition from analog to digital, when we invented a whole range of digital technology; now we're moving from single carrier technologies, where we transmit one digital symbol at a time, to a new paradigm, where we're potentially transmitting hundreds of symbols simultaneously. The change has been driven by both customer demand for more mobile services and the decreasing cost of the digital signal processing technology required to deploy high bandwidth broadband wireless systems; the technology can now be used in the variety of commercial communications devices: the phones, PDAs, and the laptops on which we have become so dependent.