Introduction to Wireless Systems

A Coherent Systems View of Wireless and Cellular Network Design and Implementation Written for senior-level undergraduates, first-year graduate students, and junior technical professionals, Introduction to Wireless Systems offers a coherent systems view of the crucial lower layers of today’s cellular systems. The authors introduce today’s most important propagation issues, modulation techniques, and access schemes, illuminating theory with real-world examples from modern cellular systems. They demonstrate how elements within today’s wireless systems interrelate, clarify the trade-offs associated with delivering high-quality service at acceptable cost, and demonstrate how systems are designed and implemented by teams of complementary specialists. Coverage includes <ul>
<li>Understanding the challenge of moving information wirelessly between two points</li>
<li>Explaining how system and subsystem designers work together to analyze, plan, and implement optimized wireless systems</li>
<li>Designing for quality reception: using the free-space range equation, and accounting for thermal noise</li>
<li>Understanding terrestrial channels and their impairments, including shadowing and multipath reception</li>
<li>Reusing frequencies to provide service over wide areas to large subscriber bases</li>
<li>Using modulation: frequency efficiency, power efficiency, BER, bandwidth, adjacent-channel interference, and spread-spectrum modulation</li>
<li>Implementing multiple access methods, including FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA</li>
<li>Designing systems for today’s most common forms of traffic—both “bursty” and “streaming”</li>
<li>Maximizing capacity via linear predictive coding and other speech compression techniques</li>
<li>Setting up connections that support reliable communication among users</li>
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 Introduction to Wireless Systems brings together the theoretical and practical knowledge readers need to participate effectively in the planning, design, or implementation of virtually any wireless system.

Computers & Technology

Black, Bruce A.

Dipiazza, Philip S.

Ferguson, Bruce A.

Voltmer, David R.

Berry, Frederick C.

Networking & Cloud Computing

PRENTICE/HALL

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Texas Instruments, Incorporated

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