Principles of wireless communications Upplaga 2

This textbook provides the reader with a basic understanding of the design and analysis of wireless and mobile communication systems. It deals with the most important techniques, models and tools used today in the design of mobile wireless links and gives an introduction to the design of wireless networks. Topics covered include • Fundamentals of radio propagation and antennas • Transmission schemes, including modulation, coding and ­equalizing schemes for broadband wireless communications • Diversity systems • Wireless data transmission • Introduction to Wireless Network design and resource management The fundamentals are illustrated by examples from state-of-the-art technologies such as OFDM, WCDMA, WLANs and others. The book contains a significant number of worked examples and more than 160 problems with answers. It is intended for use in a first graduate course in Wireless Communications and the reader should be familiar with the fundamentals of probability and communication theory. Från och med andra upplagan ges denna bok ut som mjukband. Denna upplaga innehåller dock inga förändringar av innehållet jämfört med första upplagan.