Product Description: Wireless Communications presents the most comprehensive coverage of this field which, in only a decade, has grown from a niche market into one of the most important industries. While previous systems were generally intended to provide mobile speech communications, mobile data communications have since developed.
This essential textbook on the principles and applications of mobile radio is an all-encompassing current treatment of the area, addressing both the traditional elements, such as Rayleigh fading, BER in flat fading channels, and equalization, and more recently emerging topics like multi-user detection in CDMA systems, OFDM and smart antennas. These fundamentals are related to practical systems, and the dominant wireless standards, including cellular, cordless and wireless LANs, are discussed.
A comprehensive and current treatment of a very hot topic, one of the fastest growing fields of communications
Topics featured include: wireless propagation channels, transceivers and signal processing, multiple access and advanced transceiver schemes, and standardized wireless systems
Combines mathematical descriptions with intuitive explanations of the physical facts, to assist readers in acquiring a deeper understanding of the area
Wireless Communications is an essential text for advanced undergraduate students with a working knowledge of standard digital communications, graduate students and practising engineers. It will also be an invaluable source of reference for wireless communications engineers.
An excellent text book and reference Solid understanding of wireless propagation channels is necessary to be a good wireless system designer and also a researcher. Part II of this book provides an excellent coverage of channel models and propagation mechanisms. It is a must-read material for graduate students in the wireless communications field. I also particularly studied chapter 19 on OFDM. Related concepts are very well explained.
I highly recommend this book for graduate students and researchers. It will surely be one of your favorites.
Excellent book There are many reasons to recommend this excellent book. First, it is a very thorough review of important basic and new concepts in wireless communications. No matter what you are searching for, it is very likely that you will find a first answer in this textbook. While offering different levels of detail, the author has also managed to remain very accurate in the explanations, which is a rare quality among general textbooks. Finally, the list of references is really extensive for readers highly interested in very specific topics.
5 stars without doubt I bought this book because I needed to brush up my wireless skills for a project during this summer. I liked the table of contents; it seemed to include pretty much anything I would need. But when reading it in detail, I was even more impressed by the skill of the author in explaining the most tricky aspects of wireless systems, mixing verbal explanations, math, and examples. And the book is at just the right level to bridge the usual communications courses I had heard, and the really advanced research monographs and papers. To summarize, this is simply a great book - 5 stars without a doubt.
excellent textbook This is a very excellent textbook for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It covers almost every aspects of wireless communications without losing depth. The further reading section at the end of each chapter is very usefull to readers who want to explore more on particular topics. It is a good sumary. The book will be a good tool for those who want to get more detail understanding of emerging technology like UWB, MIMO, OFDM propagation model and wirelss standards such as GSM, WCDMA, WLAN,...
Excellent reference and textbook This is an excellent book that can be used both as a reference for practicing engineers and as a textbook for teaching wireless communications. The book provides the tools to understand the state-of-the-art wireless technology, theory and practice. Topics covered are wide-ranging starting with the presentation of the requirements of wireless communication systems and the technical challenges involved in communication under multipath fading conditions. The book proceeds to present a thorough description of the wireless channel. It then continues with an in-depth presentation of techniques for designing transceivers for communication over the wireless channel. In this part, the reader will find clear, detailed descriptions of technologies currently in use such as CDMA, OFDM and multiantenna systems. In the last part, the book discusses wireless standards covering both cellular and local-area networks. Review questions and exercises are collected in a separate chapter.
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