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Wireless Communications

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ISBN-10: 0521837162

ISBN-13: 9780521837163

Edition: 2005

Authors: Andrea Goldsmith

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Wireless technology supports voice, data, and video communications between portable devices anywhere in the world, and underpins revolutionary applications such as sensor networks, telemedicine, and automated vehicles. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles, design techniques and analytical tools of wireless communications, focusing primarily on the design of practical systems. The book begins with an overview of wireless systems and standards. The characteristics of the wireless channel are then described, including capacity limits. Various modulation and coding schemes are then discussed in detail, including state-of-the-art adaptive modulation and diversity…    
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Book details

List price: $94.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/8/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 674
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.432
Language: English

Overview of wireless communications
Path loss and shadowing
Statistical multipath channel models
Capacity of wireless channels
Digital modulation and detection
Performance of digital modulation over wireless channels
Diversity
Coding for wireless channels
Adaptive modulation and coding
Multiple antennas and space-time communications
Equalization
Multicarrier modulation
Spread spectrum
Multiuser systems
Cellular systems and infrastructure-based wireless networks
Ad hoc wireless networks
Representation of bandpass signals and channels
Probability theory, random variables, and random processes
Matrix definitions, operations, and properties
Summary of wireless standards