Wireless Communications: Theory and Techniques

✍ Scribed by Asrar U. H. Sheikh (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 764
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wireless communication systems, since their inception in the form of cellular communications, have spread rapidly throughout the western world and the trend is catching on in the developing countries as well. These sys­ tems have caused revolutionary changes in the way we live. Cellular Commu­ nications have become important both as means of communication and as a new domain ofcommercial enterprise. Hand held telephones are now rapidly replacing the fixed telephone and in less than twenty years, the number of subscribers has reached nearly three quarters of a billion. In a short span of twenty years, the cellular communications progressed from the first genera­ tion to the third generation systems, which started operations in Japan on October 1,2001. The first generation wireless technology, which was thought to be obsolete is now being used for fixed wired telephony in several coun­ tries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. As some commentator said in 1983, the cellular system is the best thing that has happened in telecommunications since the introduction ofcomputers to the masses. This book is written to provide readers with the fundamental concepts ofwireless communications. It is intended for a graduate course on wireless communications but it could be easily adopted at the senior level by skipping material involving difficult mathematical manipulations. The text does not go through the rigorous material on mathematical treatment of electromagnetic waves and propagation, rather it emphasizes more on the practical aspects of this.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Overview of Wireless Communications....Pages 1-16
Macro-Characterization of Wireless Channels....Pages 17-81
Micro-Characterization of Wireless Channels....Pages 83-147
Signal Transmission Over Mobile Radio Channels....Pages 149-223
Interference, Distortion and Noise....Pages 225-285
Antennas for Mobile Radio Systems....Pages 287-306
Signal Processing in Wireless Communications....Pages 307-386
Multiple Access Communications....Pages 387-442
Mobile Wireless Systems and Services....Pages 443-456
Wireless Data Systems....Pages 457-491
Wireless Cellular System Design Principles....Pages 493-548
Mobile Wireless Cellular Systems....Pages 549-641
3G Wireless Communication Systems....Pages 643-704
Wireless Systems Beyond 3G....Pages 705-726
Back Matter....Pages 727-750

✦ Subjects

Applied Ecology; Electrical Engineering; Signal, Image and Speech Processing