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Mobile Fading Channels: Modelling, Analysis, & Simulation

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
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This textbook is a highly mathematical treatment of the modeling of Mobile Fading Channels. In fact, the reason I give the book 4 stars instead of 5 is that an unprepared reader could get lost in the mathematics when all they might be looking for is a basic understanding of fading channels.

Again, this book is about "modeling" fading channels. Fading channels are essentially stochastic processes. However, when a computer model is developed, the best that can be hoped for is a "pseudorandom" process, which the author calls a "deterministic" process as it is based on calculated outcomes of a function.

Keeping in mind that this book is essentially mathematical, I like the overall structure of the book. Chapter 3 describes Rayleigh and Rician processes as a starting reference. Chapter 4 is an introduction to deterministic processes and Chapter 5 details several methods by which to compute deterministic processes.

Chapters 6 and 7 are the heart of the text. Chapter 6 describes frequency non-selective stochastic and deterministic channel models. Chapter 7 does the same for frequency selective channels. In this latter case the behavior of the channel varies with frequency.

Finally Chapter 8 wraps up treatment of the subject by describing some fast channel simulators.

All in all, the text is overall a sound mathematical description of the problem of developing computer models of mobile fading channels.

despite the 5***s given above, this is a very dry book and does not explain any concept. The text is overwhelmed with equations and it keeps dragging into too much of mathmatical derivations. I read the book trying to understand some basic models for short fading but unfortionatley could not get much out of it. It's a kind of a research paper style rather than an academic text. The two stars are given for the completness of the derivations of each model.
My advise is that you read this book if you are looking for a thourough anaylsis and derivationsn of mobile channel models, but not if you want to clearly understand those models.

regards

The book is very well written, and gives you all the information all at one place. The theoretical treatment of the subject, which is my primary interest, is the most complete and accessible of all the books/papers that i've come across.

This is the first book that really makes me understand the concept and simulation techniques of fading channels. The author explains everything clearly, (at least, fills me with what I can't figure out from other books), provides proofs that are usually skipped in other books, and makes all the contexts easy to follow. It is a pleasure to read this book from cover to cover.