Modern Telecommunications: A Playground for Physicists?

TL;DR

This paper reviews how Random Matrix Theory is applied to modern telecommunications, covering wireless and optical communication problems to bridge physics and engineering insights.

Contribution

It introduces the physics community to practical applications of Random Matrix Theory in telecommunications, highlighting specific problems and methods.

Findings

Application of Random Matrix Theory to wireless communications

Application of Random Matrix Theory to optical communications

Illustration of analytical techniques for complex communication systems

Abstract

This report summarizes some of the material that was presented by the author during the 2015 Les Houches Summerschool on "Random Matrices and Stochastic Processes". In these Lectures, various applications of Random Matrix Theory in modern telecommunications are reviewed. The aim is to introduce the Physics community to a number of relevant problems that can be analyzed using such tools, while at the same time briefly describing the way these methods are applied. More specifically, two applications on wireless communications and two on optical communications are presented.