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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 | |