ii In recent years, the demand for wireless communication systems with high data rates and improved link quality for a variety of applications has dramatically increased. To keep up with the demand, new concepts that could mitigate the channel impairments and opti-mally exploit the limited communication resources are necessary. One of such new con-cepts is the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, which has been found to be ef?cient in increasing the performance. To utilize the huge potential bene?ts of multiple antennas, it is necessary to develop new transceiver strategies. Hence, in this dis-sertation, we combine the concept of MIMO and code division multiple access (CDMA), and coding, into a robust communication system. We develop the analytical framework, architectures, algorithms and performance analyis. Both analytical and simulated results are presented. The performance of the MIMO-CDMA system is analyzed by taking into account advanced signal processing techniques, in the presence of mutual information cou-pling. The performance of the system is evaluated in terms of complexity, signal-to-noise

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