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Wireless Communications (Wiley - IEEE)

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This is an excellent book that can be used both as a reference for practicing engineers and as a textbook for teaching wireless communications. The book provides the tools to understand the state-of-the-art wireless technology, theory and practice. Topics covered are wide-ranging starting with the presentation of the requirements of wireless communication systems and the technical challenges involved in communication under multipath fading conditions. The book proceeds to present a thorough description of the wireless channel. It then continues with an in-depth presentation of techniques for designing transceivers for communication over the wireless channel. In this part, the reader will find clear, detailed descriptions of technologies currently in use such as CDMA, OFDM and multiantenna systems. In the last part, the book discusses wireless standards covering both cellular and local-area networks. Review questions and exercises are collected in a separate chapter.

I bought this book because I needed to brush up my wireless skills for a project during this summer. I liked the table of contents; it seemed to include pretty much anything I would need. But when reading it in detail, I was even more impressed by the skill of the author in explaining the most tricky aspects of wireless systems, mixing verbal explanations, math, and examples. And the book is at just the right level to bridge the usual communications courses I had heard, and the really advanced research monographs and papers. To summarize, this is simply a great book - 5 stars without a doubt.

The book by Dr. Andreas Molisch successfuly covers the fundamental as well as emerging fields in wireless communication systems.

Essential topics such as channel modeling, modulation formats, transceiver design, diversity techniques etc. are handled successfuly. This makes the text a good reference both for undergraduate as well as graduate courses.

What makes the book different than available books in the literature is its coverage of the emerging topics in wireless communications field, such as OFDM, MIMO, UWB etc..., which makes the book a stand-alone reference for the researchers in the field.

It is a very good textbook for a wireless communication course. It covers the state-of-the-art wireless communication technologies both in breadth and depth. Different from other textbooks, it covers both physical layer design and wireless network design in sufficient detail for a beginner. So it is good for an introductory course on wireless communications. It is also suited to serve as a reference book.

This is a very excellent textbook for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It covers almost every aspects of wireless communications without losing depth. The further reading section at the end of each chapter is very usefull to readers who want to explore more on particular topics. It is a good sumary.
The book will be a good tool for those who want to get more detail understanding of emerging technology like UWB, MIMO, OFDM propagation model and wirelss standards such as GSM, WCDMA, WLAN,...

This book explains clearly and illustrates lucidly the most important concepts in wireless communications on the physical, link and multiple access layers. Not only does it cover the basic principles, but it also talks about ideas that have appeared recently in the research community.

Most importantly, this book is one of the few on wireless communications that has been written as a textbook, with homework problems and examples. It is suitable for both graduate and undergraduate courses because it can be understood at various levels of detail, and the author provides extensive lists of references for the interested reader.

There are many reasons to recommend this excellent book. First, it is a very thorough review of important basic and new concepts in wireless communications. No matter what you are searching for, it is very likely that you will find a first answer in this textbook. While offering different levels of detail, the author has also managed to remain very accurate in the explanations, which is a rare quality among general textbooks. Finally, the list of references is really extensive for readers highly interested in very specific topics.

If you would like to know the solutions, you won't get it. This book only supports the solutions for instructors. you know I mean we can't know the answers even if you requested it on its website. you still can't get anything.

I just used this for the final specialist class of my telecommunications engineering degree and while I found the book reasonably readable and quite useful, it's far from complete, quite advanced in some places, and there is a dearth of problems to solve.

Essentially, while the book was definitely useful, it proved absolutely necessary to check ALL the texts in our reference list, as well as telecommunications forums online, Wikipedia, onlines notes from other universities and anything else Google could find for me in order to even begin to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.

The author has a clear writing style and an ability to explain concepts quite lucidly, but it is a shame he doesn't exercise this ability more often. The book has a lot more potential to be comprehensive in both breadth and depth, albeit at the expense of brevity.

For example, many chapters begin with quite clear explanations of concepts and then begin to marry these to mathematical treatments, but it's almost like the author just gives up in fear that the chapter will be too long - quite quickly prose explanations peter out, leaving just the mathematical treatments, and then these too seem to attenuate almost to nothing, leaving the chapter just mentioning several topics and concepts without any explanation at all.

These topics and concepts, then, form the basis of many of the chapter problems, meaning the problems are fairly unsolvable without much more research. Further to this, there aren't a lot of problems, many are quite difficult, the information to solve many is just not present, there are almost no problem examples in the chapter bodies and none of the few that exist bear a direct relation to any of the questions.

The book could be a lot better, if it either spelled out pre-requisite knowledge clearly or else began at a simpler level, and did not leave the second half of chapters (or topics within chapters) lacking in attention, leaving many important concepts completely unexplained. For example, some chapters provide good explanations of calculus proofs, and then go on to assume the reader can construct further proofs even though the latter are much more advanced. Other chapters begin with extremely basic descriptions of how antennae work, and then go on to assume expert knowledge of specialist antenna theory, and so on.

It would also benefit from a seperate book of problems, instead of a single chapter at the end. That way, problem solving could be given adequate attention in the form of many worked examples and a wider variety of problems to solve, starting easy and gaining in difficulty. This could further be expanded with CD or online content.

The book deserves a place on any shelf of wireless communication references, but unfortunately it won't cover the whole field in any sort of depth (not just adequate depth, but in some places any depth at all) and it certainly won't teach someone unacquainted with wireless communications without a lot of effort of independant research on their part.

I have had my fair share of textbooks during my college career, this is by far one of the better books I have used. Material is adequately covered, not too much unnecessary detail or too vague. Sample problems and chapter problems adequately cover material at a fair difficulty level. If you want to gain an understanding of the architecture behind wirelesss networks this is a good building block