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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Authors -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Symbols -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation and Scope -- 1.2 Book Structure -- Chapter 2 Fading -- 2.1 Large-Scale Fading -- 2.1.1 Path-Loss -- 2.1.2 Shadowing -- 2.2 Small-Scale Fading -- 2.2.1 The Multipath Channel -- 2.2.2 Time-Varying Channel -- Chapter 3 Block Transmission Techniques -- 3.1 Transmission Structure of a Multicarrier Modulation -- 3.2 Receiver Structure of a Multicarrier Modulation -- 3.3 Multicarrier Modulations or Single-Carrier Modulations?.. -- 3.4 OFDM Modulations -- 3.4.1 Analytical Characterization of the OFDM Modulations -- 3.4.2 Transmission Structure -- 3.4.3 Reception Structure -- 3.5 SC-FDE Modulations -- 3.5.1 Transmission Structure -- 3.5.2 Receiving Structure -- 3.6 Comparative Analysis between OFDM and SC-FDE -- 3.7 DFE Iterative Receivers -- 3.7.1 IB-DFE Receiver Structure -- 3.7.2 IB-DFE with Soft Decisions -- 3.7.3 Turbo FDE Receiver -- Chapter 4 Approaching the Matched Filter Bound -- 4.1 Matched Filter Bound -- 4.1.1 Approaching the Matched Filter Bound -- 4.1.2 Analytical Computation of the MFB -- 4.2 System Characterization -- 4.3 Performance Results -- 4.3.1 Performance Results without Channel Coding -- 4.3.2 Performance Results with Channel Coding -- Chapter 5 Efficient Channel Estimation for Single Frequency Networks -- 5.1 System Characterization -- 5.1.1 Channel Estimation -- 5.1.2 Channel Estimation Enhancement -- 5.2 Decision-Directed Channel Estimation -- 5.3 Performance Results -- 5.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Asynchronous Single Frequency Networks -- 6.1 SFN Channel Characterization -- 6.2 Impact of Carrier Frequency O set E ects -- 6.3 Channel and CFO Estimation -- 6.3.1 Frame Structure -- 6.3.2 Tracking the Variations of the Equivalent Channel