Wireless Personal Communications: Bluetooth and Other Technologies

✍ Scribed by Marin Stoytchev, Hugo Safar (auth.), William H. Tranter, Brian D. Woerner, Jeffrey H. Reed, Theodore S. Rappaport, Max Robert (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 276
• Series: The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 592
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wireless Personal Communications: Bluetooth Tutorial and OtherTechnologies presents a broad range of topics in wireless communications, including perspectives from both industry and academia. The book serves as a reflection of emerging technologies in wireless communications and features papers from world-renowned authors on the subject.
A new tutorial on the emerging Bluetooth technology is also presented.
Wireless Personal Communications: Bluetooth Tutorial and OtherTechnologies serves as an excellent reference and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject. It is an essential tool for graduate students, postgraduate researchers, academics, and anyone working in the research aspect of the wireless communications industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Statistics of the Temporal Variations in the Wireless Transmission Channel in Indoor Environments....Pages 1-10
UHF-radio Propagation Predictor for Temporal Variations in Populated Indoor Environments....Pages 11-21
An Improved Approach for Performance Evaluation of the Downlink of DS-CDMA PCS Indoor Systems with Distributed Antennas....Pages 23-34
Fast and Enhanced Ray Optical Propagation Modeling for Radio Network Planning in Urban and Indoor Scenarios....Pages 35-44
Indoor Propagation Analysis Techniques for Characterization of Ultra-wideband RF Environments....Pages 45-56
Propagation Signatures to Characterise Wideband Environments....Pages 57-65
Smart Antennas for CDMA Cellular and PCS Networks....Pages 66-76
Key techniques realizing smart antenna hardware for microcell communication systems....Pages 77-87
Downlink Capacity Enhancement in GSM System Using Multiple Beam Smart Antenna and SWR Implementation....Pages 88-99
Generalized Equations for Spatial Correlation for Low to Moderate Angle Spread....Pages 101-108
Exploitation of Internode MIMO Channel Diversity in Spatially Distributed Multipoint Communication Networks....Pages 109-120
Design of 16-QAM Space-time Codes for Rapid Rayleigh Fading Channels....Pages 121-130
Transmit Diversity With More Than Two Antennas....Pages 131-143
Reduced Complexity Space-time Optimum Processing....Pages 145-156
Wireless personal communications system planning using combinatorial optimisation....Pages 157-168
Frequency Planning and Adjacent Channel Interference in a DSSS Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)....Pages 169-180
Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Packet Erasure Channels....Pages 181-192
Reducing handover probability through mobile positioning....Pages 193-203
Multi-user Detection Using the Iteration Algorithm in Fast-fading Channels....Pages 205-215
FPGA DSP for Wireless Communication....Pages 217-228
Signal Processing Requirements of the TDD Terminal....Pages 229-238
Frame Quality-based Versus E b / N o -based Forward Power Control Methods for the cdma2000 Third Generation Standard....Pages 239-248
Bluetooth: A Short Tutorial....Pages 249-265

✦ Subjects

Electronic and Computer Engineering; Signal, Image and Speech Processing