Wireless Communications

A comprehensive introduction to the basic principles, design techniques and analytical tools of wireless communications.

Andrea Goldsmith (Author)

9780521837163, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 August 2005

674 pages, 7 tables 295 exercises
25.7 x 18.5 x 4.1 cm, 1.312 kg

'Wireless Communications by Andrea Goldsmith is an excellent, reader-friendly book, which maintains the high standards of the Cambridge University Press …'. Professor Stuart Schwartz, Princeton University

Wireless technology is a truly revolutionary paradigm shift, enabling multimedia communications between people and devices from any location. It also underpins exciting applications such as sensor networks, smart homes, telemedicine, and automated highways. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying theory, design techniques and analytical tools of wireless communications, focusing primarily on the core principles of wireless system design. The book begins with an overview of wireless systems and standards. The characteristics of the wireless channel are then described, including their fundamental capacity limits. Various modulation, coding, and signal processing schemes are then discussed in detail, including state-of-the-art adaptive modulation, multicarrier, spread spectrum, and multiple antenna techniques. The concluding chapters deal with multiuser communications, cellular system design, and ad-hoc network design. Design insights and tradeoffs are emphasized throughout the book. It contains many worked examples, over 200 figures, almost 300 homework exercises, over 700 references, and is an ideal textbook for students.

Preface
1. Overview of wireless communications
2. Path loss and shadowing
3. Statistical multipath channel models
4. Capacity of wireless channels
5. Digital modulation and detection
6. Performance of digital modulation over wireless channels
7. Diversity
8. Coding for wireless channels
9. Adaptive modulation and coding
10. Multiple antennas and space-time communications
11. Equalization
12. Multicarrier modulation
13. Spread spectrum
14. Multiuser systems
15. Cellular systems and infastructure-based wireless networks
16. Ad-hoc networks
Appendices
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Educational: Technology [YQT], Computer networking & communications [UT], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Electrical engineering [THR]