Aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduates and practising engineers, this volume provides a comprehensive treatment of digital wireless communications, covering a range of topics including directional channel modelling, multi-user detection, MIMO systems, and 3G standards
Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-613) and index
Applications and requirements of wireless services -- Technical challenges of wireless communications -- Noise- and interference-limited systems -- Propagation mechanisms -- Statistical description of the wireless channel -- Wideband and directional channel characterization -- Channel models -- Channel sounding -- Antennas -- Structure of a wireless communication link -- Modulation formats -- Demodulation -- Diversity -- Channel coding -- Speech coding -- Equalizers -- Multiple access and the cellular principle -- Spread spectrum systems -- Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) -- Multiantenna systems -- GSM -- Global System for Mobile communications -- IS-95 and CDMA 2000 -- WCDMA/UMTS -- Wireless Local Area Networks -- Exercises