I am sorry I probably can say nothing on the "detailed question", but let me comment on the "basic" one. I spent some time on the [book][1] Fundamentals of Wireless Communication David Tse and Pramod Viswanath Here is [link to pdf][2] with lectures by D. Tse based on it. The book is intended for wireless signal processing, with some examples related to GSM, CDMA. It covers basic ideas: the transmission chain, fading channel; Shannon's channel's capacity theory. Advanced topics like MIMO. I think it is quite good for mathematician learning something about wireless communication. One of the authors - D. Tse is leading expert in this field and his approach is quite mathematical, see e.g. [paper][3] L. Zheng and D. Tse, ``Communicating on the Grassmann Manifold: A Geometric Approach to the Non-coherent Multiple Antenna Channel'', IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 48(2), February 2002, pp. 359-383. The geometry of Grassmann manifold appears to be related with capacity of MIMO channels. [1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0521845270 [2]: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dtse/taiwan_course.pdf [3]: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dtse/grassmann.pdf