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Chapter 18

MIMO Broadcasting with Receiver Antenna

Heterogeneity

18.1 Introduction

Multimedia broadcasting has recently attracted a great deal of research interest [437,

438] along with growing wireless communication capabilities [439, 440] and the

demand for audio and video streaming [2]. However, broadcasting systems tradi-

tionally suffer from heterogeneous channel conditions across receivers. A trans-

mission scheme should normally ensure that all receivers can receive broadcasted

information, resulting in the system performance often being constrained by the

worst channel. This is likely to be exacerbated in future systems featuring multiple-

input multiple-output (MIMO) technologies, which have increasingly become build-

ing blocks for