Essentials of Radio Wave Propagation (The Cambridge Wireless Essentials Series) [Hardcover]

Christopher Haslett (Author)

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ISBN-10: 052187565X | ISBN-13: 978-0521875653 | Publication Date: January 7, 2008 | Edition: 1

If you need to maximize efficiency in wireless network planning, this quick reference guide to an increasingly complex and difficult topic is for you. Using real-world case studies, practical problems and minimum mathematics, the author explains simply and clearly how to predict signal strengths in a variety of situations. More sophisticated methods, which form the basis of software tools for both network planning and spectrum management, are also described. This will be an invaluable resource for network planners, hardware designers, spectrum managers, senior technical managers and policy makers.

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If you need to maximize efficiency in wireless network planning, this quick guide to understanding radio propagation issues is for you. Using real-world case studies, practical problems and minimum mathematics this is an invaluable resource for network planners, hardware designers, spectrum managers, senior technical managers and policy makers.

About the Author

Christopher Haslett is the principal propagation adviser at Ofcom, the UK communication industries regulator. As well as experience conducting and directing research projects, he has many years' industrial radio-planning experience with Cable and Wireless plc., and as director of planning and optimization at Aircom International Ltd., where he directed the optimization of UMTS networks. He was also a senior lecturer at the University of Glamorgan.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 214 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (January 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 052187565X
• ISBN-13: 978-0521875653
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #671,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Essentials of Radio Wave Propagation (The Cambridge Wireless Essentials Series) (Hardcover)

I seldom have the desire to write any type of a review for a text that I would not recommend to someone else. However, I feel the need to say that if you are searching for a text to introduce you to radio wave propagation...just keep browsing. This is NOT the one to get. There is really very little of value here, in my humble opinion. This text has very little detail on any aspect of propagation and instead refers the reader to other works, such as the ITU-R publications, for further details, far too often. I was so relieved that I purchased it at a huge discount from a used bookseller.

I recommend the following texts:

Propagation of Radiowaves, 2nd Edition (Electromagnetic Waves)

Radiowave Propagation

Introduction to RF Propagation