Wireless Communications [Hardcover]

Theodore S. Rappaport (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0133755363 | ISBN-13: 978-0133755367 | Publication Date: January 15, 1996 | Edition: 1st

As cellular telephones become commonplace business tools, interest in wireless technology is booming. This book responds to that demand with a comprehensive survey of the field, suitable for educational or technical use. Materials are drawn from academic and business sources, numerous journals, and an IEEE professional reader. Extensively illustrated, Wireless Communications is filled with examples and problems, solved step by step and clearly explained.Wireless Communications covers the design fundamentals of cellular systems, including issues of frequency reuse, channel assignments, radio propagation, and both analog and digital modulation techniques. Speech coding, channel coding, diversity, spread spectrum, and multiple access are also discussed. A separate chapter is devoted to wireless networking, including SS7 and ISDN.Beyond theory,Wireless Communications offers practical reference sections, including: * Complete technical standards for cellular, cordless telephone, and personal communications systems * International standards for Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region * Noise figure calculations and Gaussian approximations of spread spectrum CDMA interference * Mathematical tables, identities, and the Q, erf, and erf functions * Glossary of abbreviations and acronyms * Full list of references This book is designed for use in graduate and undergraduate classrooms, but is also suitable for use by professional engineers and technicians. It can be used for both teaching and reference, and is also appropriate for the interested cellular phone consumer who wants to understand the technology.

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As cellular telephones become commonplace business tools, interest in wireless technology is booming. This book responds to that demand with a comprehensive survey of the field, suitable for educational or technical use. Materials are drawn from academic and business sources, numerous journals, and an IEEE professional reader. Extensively illustrated, Wireless Communications is filled with examples and problems, solved step by step and clearly explained.

Wireless Communications covers the design fundamentals of cellular systems, including issues of frequency reuse, channel assignments, radio propagation, and both analog and digital modulation techniques. Speech coding, channel coding, diversity, spread spectrum, and multiple access are also discussed. A separate chapter is devoted to wireless networking, including SS7 and ISDN.

Beyond theory, Wireless Communications offers practical reference sections, including:

Complete technical standards for cellular, cordless telephone, and personal communications systems

International standards for Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region

Noise figure calculations and Gaussian approximations of spread spectrum CDMA interference

Mathematical tables, identities, and the Q, erf, and erf functions

Glossary of abbreviations and acronyms

Full list of references

This book is designed for use in graduate and undergraduate classrooms, but is also suitable for use by professional engineers and technicians. It can be used for both teaching and reference, and is also appropriate for the interested cellular phone consumer who wants to understand the technology.

About the Author

THEODORE S. RAPPAPORT is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas, and director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG.org). In 1990, he founded the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) at Virginia Tech, one of the first university research and educational programs for the wireless communications field. He is the editor or co-editor of four other books on the topic of wireless communications, based on his teaching and research activities at MPRG.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 641 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (January 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0133755363
• ISBN-13: 978-0133755367
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,416,252 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive graduate-level introduction to wireless comms, June 17, 1998

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MusicMaven "MusicMaven" (Mason Neck, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wireless Communications (Hardcover)

In my opinion, THE book for introductory coursework in wireless (non-satellite) communications systems. Though the author claims the material can be covered in a single semester, I think it is better to plan a two-semester sequence at either the advanced undergraduate or early graduate levels. A background in calculus, probability theory, and communications signal analysis is necessary.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for radio theory, not for understanding mobile tech., February 4, 2001

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Jose Miguel Guzman (Santiago, - CHILE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice (Hardcover)

The first 440 pages are concerned with the theory behind radio transmission, radio link calculation, propagation models, modulation techniques and Multiple Access Technologies (FDMA, TDMA, FHMA, CDMA, etc.) . Although all this theory is explained in many books, this book could be a convenient source for most you have to know about radio (layer-1). However, this book is very poor regarding the mobile standards (just one chapter), that was the info I was looking for. For understanding the upper layers in the mobile architectures, look for a more recent book, specific to your technology (GSM, D-AMPS, IS-95, etc)

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Rappaport "Wireless Communications", March 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Wireless Communications (Hardcover)

This book was the recommended book for a course I just took and I found it much better than the required text. Good discussion of fading channels, overview of the major wireless protocols that were in use at the time the book was written, and well thought out and well written overviews of the prerequisite material from general communication theory.