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Introduction | |
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The Beauty of Wires, the Inevitability of Wireless | |
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What You Need to Proceed | |
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An Overview of What Is to Come | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Further Reading | |
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Basics of Wireless Communications | |
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Harmonic Signals and Exponentials | |
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Electromagnetic Waves and Multiplexing | |
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Modulation and Bandwidth | |
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Wireless Link Overview: Systems, Power, Noise, and Link Budgets | |
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Capsule Summary: Chapter 2 | |
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Further Reading | |
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Basics of Wireless Local Area Networks | |
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Networks Large and Small | |
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WLANs from LANs | |
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802.11 WLANs | |
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HiperLAN and HiperLAN 2 | |
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From LANs to PANs | |
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Capsule Summary: Chapter 3 | |
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Further Reading | |
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Radio Transmitters and Receivers | |
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Overview of Radios | |
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Radio Components | |
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Radio System Design | |
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Examples of Radio Chips and Chipsets | |
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Capsule Summary: Chapter 4 | |
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Further Reading | |
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Antennas | |
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Not Your Father's E & M | |
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Radiation: The Wireless Wire | |
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The Ideal Dipole | |
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Antenna Radiation Patterns | |
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Antennas as Receivers | |
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Survey of Common Antennas | |
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Cables and Connectors | |
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Capsule Summary: Chapter 5 | |
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Further Reading | |
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Propagation | |
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Propagation in Free Space | |
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Propagation in Earthbound Environments | |
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Multipath Propagation: Fading and Delay | |
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Statistical Modeling of Propagation | |
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Capsule Summary: Chapter 6 | |
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Further Reading | |
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Indoor Networks | |
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Behind Closed Doors | |
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How Buildings Are Built (with W. Charles Perry, P.E.) | |
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Microwave Properties of Building Materials | |
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Realistic Metal Obstacles | |
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Real Indoor Propagation | |
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How Much Is Enough? | |
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Indoor Interferers | |
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Tools for Indoor Networks | |
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Capsule Summary: Chapter 7 | |
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Further Reading | |
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Outdoor Networks | |
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Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom of Night | |
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Line-of-Sight Sites | |
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Outdoor Coverage Networks | |
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Point-to-Multipoint Networks | |
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Point-to-Point Bridges | |
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Long Unlicensed Links | |
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Safety Tips | |
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Capsule Summary: Chapter 8 | |
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Further Reading | |
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Afterword | |
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Regulatory Issues | |
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A Piece of History | |
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FCC Part 15 | |
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European Standards | |
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Japan | |
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China | |
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Concluding Remarks | |
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Further Reading | |
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Measurement Tools | |
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The RF Toolbox | |
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Reflection and Matching | |
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Reflection Coefficients | |
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A Simple Matching Example | |
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Further Reading? | |
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The Lorentz Gauge | |
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No Royal Road | |
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Lorentz Gauge Derivation | |
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Coupling of the Potentials | |
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Power Density | |
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Rederiving P | |
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Conventional E & M | |
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Speaking Their Language | |
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Table of Symbols Used in the Text | |
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Index | |