Wireless Communication Systems
From RF Subsystems to 4G Enabling Technologies

A practically-oriented and all-inclusive guide, covering all the major enabling technologies for 3G/4G cellular communications and wireless networking.

Ke-Lin Du (Author), M. N. S. Swamy (Author)

9780521114035, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 April 2010

1020 pages, 345 b/w illus. 24 tables 292 exercises
25.3 x 19.6 x 5.1 cm, 2.3 kg

This practically-oriented, all-inclusive guide covers all the major enabling techniques for current and next-generation cellular communications and wireless networking systems. Technologies covered include CDMA, OFDM, UWB, turbo and LDPC coding, smart antennas, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, MIMO, and cognitive radios, providing readers with everything they need to master wireless systems design in a single volume. Uniquely, a detailed introduction to the properties, design, and selection of RF subsystems and antennas is provided, giving readers a clear overview of the whole wireless system. It is also the first textbook to include a complete introduction to speech coders and video coders used in wireless systems. Richly illustrated with over 400 figures, and with a unique emphasis on practical and state-of-the-art techniques in system design, rather than on the mathematical foundations, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in wireless communications, as well as for wireless and telecom engineers.

1. Introduction
2. An overview of wireless communications
3. Channel and propagation
4. Cellular and multiple-user systems
5. Diversity
6. Channel estimation and equalization
7. Modulation and detection
8. Spread spectrum communications
9. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
10. Antennas
11. RF and microwave subsystems
12. A/D and D/A conversions
13. Signals and signal processing
14. Fundamentals of information theory
15. Channel coding
16. Source coding I: speech and audio coding
17. Source coding II: image and video coding
18. Multiple antennas: smart antenna systems
19. Multiple antennas: MIMO systems
20. Ultra wideband communications
22. Wireless ad hoc/sensor networks
The Q-function
Wirtinger calculus.

Subject Areas: Computer networking & communications [UT], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Engineering: general [TBC]