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Cell phones are now ubiquitous and the book explains the technical underpinnings of these wireless networks. As the authors explain, the book fills a gap in the technical literature, by being directed at the undergraduate level. Currently, most other materials is either at the research level or for the technician.

The text starts from various physical first principles. So we see the propagation of radio waves, and the uses of antennas for transmission and reception. The circuitry in the book is at the systems level. So it's not really hard core circuit design. Instead, more attention is paid to the definition and properties of a channel. But if we consider the systems level, the key ideas are the uses of base stations to define overlapping cells.

The book can also be used by students anywhere in the world. The authors explain the main cellular systems deployed globally.

To encourage its use as a textbook, the chapters end with exercises; often these cover all the main ideas of each chapter.

Are you a senior undergraduate student in electrical or computer engineering with a systems-engineering perspective on the design and analysis of a wireless communication system? If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Bruce A. Black, Philip S. DiPiazza, Bruce A. Ferguson , David R. Voltmer and Frederick C. Berry, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that focuses on cellular telephone systems.

Authors Black, DiPiazza, Ferguson, Voltmer and Berry, begin by discussing systems-engineering. Then, the authors cover the free-space range equation and thermal noise.
The authors also introduce you to the terrestrial channel and its impairments, including the effects of shadowing and multipath reception. They continue by covering the principle of frequency reuse and the resulting cellular system structure. Then, the authors delve more deeply into spread-spectrum modulation, emphasizing the ability of spread-spectrum systems to provide robust communication in the presence of narrowband interference and frequency-selective fading. They then introduce methods for multiple access, including FDMA, TDMA, and an introduction to CDMA. Finally, the authors also distinguish streamlining from bursty information streams.

This most excellent book has been written to support a one-term senior elective course. Nevertheless, this book is limited to what cellular systems engineers call the air interface and what network engineers call the physical layer.