from the first edition: digital communication over fading channels discusses in detail coherent, differentially coherent, and noncoherent communication systems as well as a large variety of fading channel models typical of communication links found in the real world. coverage also includes single- and multichannel reception and, in the case of the latter, a large variety of diversity types. for each combination of communication type, channel fading model, and diversity type, the average bit error rate and/or symbol error rate is expressed in an easy-to-evaluate form. since publication of the first edition a great deal of research has been published, much of it by the primary author who is the acknowledged world expert on the subject. the second edition of the book greatly expands the sections on mathematical tools and statistical channel models. in addition it includes a section on the important topic of space-time coding, a new chapter on transmit diversity and mimo (multi-input/multi-output) channels, and a chapter on outage probability of cellular mobile radio systems.