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Principles of Mobile Communication (2nd Edition)

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Treats very good topics in an obscure manner and the chapter numbering is inconveneient in addition to being slightly unusual.

This was one of two text books used by a professor of mine in a wireless communications class. Content-wise, this book is not useful to anyone interested in really learning how wireless comm systems work. There is way too much theorey and mathematical proofs in this book and not enough hands on material for the practicing engineer. Our class found numerous typos in the book too. The Wireless Communications book by Rappaport is more useful.

I have no problem with the content, but with the layout.
The chapter numbers are not a the top of the pages and the
section numbers are not prefixed with the chapter number.

For example, chap. 2, section 1, subsection 1 is listed
as 1.1 in the second chapter. It would not be such a big
deal if the chapter number were printed at the top of the
page, but it's not! It makes it quite frustrating when looking
for a section in the book.

Stick with the first edition (1996)

I think this is a good book. But let me qualify this. Its a good book IF you are doing graduate level research in wireless comm. If you wan't a gross introduction to the chief issues in wireless communication design, better look some place else (e.g., Rappaport etc.)

For anyone who wants to see how analytic techniques apply to wireless design, I think this book provides most of the nuts and bolts. I have'nt seen many books on wireless comm that take the approach of Stuber. Most texts just present net results or list the key equations without any derivations and/or motivation (Rappaport is a case in point, we used this text in our undergrad Mobile Comm course). Fortunately, Stuber provides a lot more substance than just a top-level survey of the subject. He applies and extends the concepts introduced in a first year graduate courses on digital communications to wireless scenarios. You cannot hone your analytic skills without actually solving problems in communications. The inclusion of excercises is thus very crucial and Stuber has a lot of them at the end of every chapter.

One downside is the typos. But i guess its a hallmark of all wireless books. On this count Rappaport's book is even worst (lots of mistakes).

Another nice book of this kind is by Prof. Andreas Goldsmith of Stanford Univ., titled "Wireless Communications" (if i recall the name correctly).

If you want to learn basic wireless communication concepts, go to Rapapport's book, don't bother with Stuber's. However, if you are a PhD student or Research Engineer in the field of Digital Communications and Wireless Communications, then Stuber's book is a MUST HAVE. It contains all what you need to hone your skills in solving wireless communication problems (writing papers, formulating research problems,...). Don't forget that Stuber is a pioneer in Wireless and Mobile Communications fields, his book contain many theoritical and practical aspects that are not in any other wireless communications book, even those new ones (Andrea Goldsmith book, David Tse's ....). Topics like fading and shadowing simulations, channel modeling, propagation modeling are introduced in Stuber's book in a overkill details that you won't find except if you go dig in IEEE journals... I highly recommend this book for any PhD student in this field...

Good book. Dr. Stuber was my teacher at Georgia Tech. At that time we were using Proakis book (Digital Comm.), yet, I always went back to this concise book for precise information on those confuse subjects like adaptive filtering. It's full of formulas and theory; it covers adaptive filtering including MLSE, Viterbi, and algorithm like the Steepest Descent or the practical MLS. It is not a Filtering book, yet it does covers the essentials. It covers Modulation and Demodulation, Detection, Estimation, Fading channels etc etc. It is a good reference book writing by a pioneer in the field. I do recommend this great book for a complete engineer's library. In fact I have just purchase the new edition. Thank you Dr. Stuber.