Engineering

• Unique presentation of communications and information delivery techniques in a transport platform—Includes physical layer; link layer; and networking layer functions.

  • Gives students an in-depth understanding of end-to-end mobile communications and the knowledge to formulate, design and analyze different subsystems, and to evaluate network performance.

• Coverage of both digital transmission techniques and networking technology for wireless communications and wireless/wireline interworking—Not found in other texts.

  • Provides students with an intuitive and yet rigorous understanding of the end-to-end behavior in wireless communications, including the characteristics of the propagation channel, problems arising from channel disturbances, and methods to mitigate these problems.

• Sample problems and solutions in every chapter—Includes chapter-end exercise problems and selected answers.

  • Offers students the opportunity to practice and apply what they have learned.

• Comprehensive computer simulation exercise problems—Include source codes in MATLAB for the simulators.

  • Gives students hands-on experience in wireless system design and operation, and extends their studies from simplified theoretical analysis to simulations in a more practical wireless system environment.

• Well-written, accessible format.

  • Organizes material in a way that is most conducive to teaching and learning the salient features in wireless communications and networking.

• Notes and references.

  • Offers students pointers to more advanced and in-depth studies on various topics.

1. Overview of Wireless Communications and Networking.


2. Characterization of the Wireless Channel.


3. Bandpass Transmission Techniques for Mobile Radio.


4. Receiver Techniques for Fading Dispersive Channels.


5. Fundamentals of Cellular Communications.


6. Multiple Access Techniques.


7. Mobility Management in Wireless Networks.


8. Wireless/Wireline Interworking.


Appendices.


References.


Answers to Selected Problems.

Wireless Communications  [CORE TEXTS]   (Electrical and Computing Engineering)

Wireless Communications and Networking covers a wide range of topics from the physical layer to the networking layers of a hybrid wireless/wireline information transport platform. This book meets the need for a relatively short, yet complete and self-contained text suitable for a single-semester senior undergraduate or first-year graduate course. The coverage of internetworking between wireless and wireline networks is unique to this book. The fundamental aspects of mobile cellular communications and networking (signal design, channel characterization, receiver structure, multiple access technologies, mobile cellular networking, capacity enlargement, mobility management, wireless/wireline interworking) are interweaved into a unified and systematic presentation, with illustrative examples throughout the book.

Salient Features:
• Characterization of the wireless propagation channel
• Bandpass signaling for mobile radio
• Receiver design for fading dispersive channels
• Capacity enlargement of cellular systems
• Multiple access techniques
• Mobility management in mobile cellular networks
• Wireless/internet interworking

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Mark & Zhuang
©2003 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement; 200 pp | Instock
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Mark & Zhuang
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