OFDMA Mobile Broadband Communications
A Systems Approach

The pioneers of Flash-OFDM present OFDMA from first principles, enabling readers to apply theory to practice and understand mobile broadband.

Junyi Li (Author), Xinzhou Wu (Author), Rajiv Laroia (Author)

9781107001602, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 January 2013

537 pages, 240 b/w illus. 20 tables
25.2 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm, 1.2 kg

'Most texts in communications focus either on theory or on detailed description of standards. This unique book takes cutting-edge theory and shows how it can be applied to real-world systems. An invaluable guide on the bridge from theory to practice, written by some of the best system engineers in the field.' David Tse, University of California, Berkeley

Written by the pioneers of Flash-OFDM, arguably the first commercially developed OFDMA-based mobile broadband system in the world, this book teaches OFDMA from first principles, enabling readers to understand mobile broadband as a whole. The book examines the key requirements for data-centric mobile; how OFDMA fits well with data networks; why mobile broadband needs to be IP-based; and how to bridge communications theory to real-world air interface design and make a good system choice between performance and complexity. It also explores the future of wireless technologies beyond conventional cellular architecture. One of the key challenges faced by newcomers to this field is how to apply the wireless communications theory and principles to the real world and how to understand sophisticated commercial systems such as LTE. The authors use their firsthand experience to help graduate students, researchers and professionals working on 4G to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

1. Introduction
2. Elements of OFDMA
3. System design principles
4. Mitigation and exploitation of multipath fading
5. Intra-cell user multiplexing
6. Inter-cell interference management
7. Use of multiple antennas
8. Scheduling
9. Handoff in IP-based network architecture
10. Beyond conventional cellular framework
Appendices: A. Overview of system operations
B. Brief review of channel capacity
C. OFDM point-to-point communications.

Subject Areas: Signal processing [UYS], Computer networking & communications [UT], WAP [wireless technology TJKW], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electronics engineering [TJF]