Wireless Communications

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Wireless Communications provides a self-contained all encompassing current treatment of the area and topics covered will include directional channel modelling, multi-user detection, MIMO systems, and 3G standards. In addition, the author has combined mathematical derivations with intuitive explanations of the physical facts in order to help students (including self-study readers) to acquire a deeper understanding of the facts. Table of Contents Preface List of abbreviations List of symbols Part I Introduction Applications and requirements of wireless services Technical challenges of wireless communications Noise- and interference-limited systems Part II Wireless Propagation Channels Propagation mechanisms Statistical description of the wireless channel Wideband and directional channel characterization Channel models Channel sounding Antennas Part III Transceivers And Signal Processing Structure of a wireless communication link Modulation formats Demodulation Diversity Channel coding Speech coding Equalizers Part IV Multiple Access And Advanced Transceiver Schemes Multiple access and the cellular principle Spread spectrum systems Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) Multi-antenna systems Part V Standardized Wireless Systems GSM - Global System for Mobile communications IS-95 and CDMA 2000 WCDMA/UMTS Wireless Local Area Networks Exercises References Index