Tutorial 2 [breaker page]

Summary form only given. The tutorial will cover robust system design in a broad range of communication applications. In particular, both broadcast channels and multiple access channels will be considered, and design approaches for both linear and non-linear transceivers will be developed. The tutorial will consider different models, e.g., statistical and bounded, for the uncertainties in the CSI in order to match the model to the method of acquiring the CSI. For these models of channel uncertainty, a variety of transceivers design formulations will be considered, including those based on optimizing performance under transmitter power constraints, and those based on minimizing the transmitted power required to satisfy the QoS constraints specified by the users. The tutorial will also present multiuser systems designs with outage based constraints for both linear and non-linear transceivers, and the design of multi-user transceivers with fairness constraints. The unification of these designs will rely on the theories of convex and robust optimization, hence an introduction to these theories is useful, and will be presented during the tutorial. This introduction will enable an unfamiliar attendee to quickly become acquainted with the core mathematical tools employed in the main part of the tutorial.