OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications (Artech House Universal Personal Communications) [Hardcover]

Richard Van Nee (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0890065306 | ISBN-13: 978-0890065303 | Publication Date: December 31, 1999

A study of OFDM, including a comparison with other forms of single carrier modulation methods. It provides the design guidelines needed to maximise benefits from this technology. There is practical advice on how to plan, design and use OFDM to make wireless multimedia communications happen. It offers a solid base for assessing the performance of wireless OFDM systems; explains how OFDM signals are formed using the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform, how the cyclic extension mitigates the effects of modulation, and how windowing can limit out-of-band radiation; discusses the sensitivity of OFDM to synchronization errors; examines the basics of direct sequence and frequency hopping CMDA, helpful in understanding combinations of OFDM and CDMA; explains Multicarrier CDMA, various transmitter architectures, and the pros and cons compared to other CDMA techniques; and includes a discussion of the combination of OFDM and frequency hopping CDMA to get a multiple access system with similar advantages to direct sequence CDMA.

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About the Author

Richard D.J. van Nee, Ph.D. is a member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs in the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Delft University, and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Twente University. Dr. van Nee was among those who proposed the OFDM-based physical layer, which was selected for standardization in IEEE 802.11, MMAC, and ETSI HiperLAN. Ramjee Prasad is Wireless Information and Multimedia Chair and Co-Director of the Center for Personkommunikation at Aalborg University. He is the author of CDMA for Wireless Personal Communications (Artech, 1996) and Universal Wireless Personal Communications (Artech, 1998). Dr. Prasad earned his Ph.D. in communications from the Birla Institute of Technology.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 284 pages
• Publisher: Artech House Publishers (December 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890065306
• ISBN-13: 978-0890065303
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,821,931 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not your ultimate OFDM book, December 3, 2000

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This review is from: OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications (Artech House Universal Personal Communications) (Hardcover)

If you are looking for a book that clearly explains the mysteries of OFDM and COFDM then, you will have to wait. This is not that book. Much is left to "as an exercise for the student." There is some generic stuff on coding but how it relates to multipath mitigation is not clear. There are no good pictures of spectrums. The effect of amplifier non-linearities is inadequately addressed. The concept of IFFT as applied to modulation is not explained in a way you can understand it quickly. The section on coherent and differential detection is uneven in the amount of detail and understandability. The whole book has in places either too much math or not enough. There is no section on performance that tells you what the end to performance might be. Good try but far from perfect.

Charan Langton

20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book For Starting With OFDM, February 13, 2000

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This review is from: OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications (Artech House Universal Personal Communications) (Hardcover)

OFDM is not a new technology. It was firstly introduced in 1960s. But until recently, OFDM was largely unknown. As OFDM seems to be the only technology for wideband wireless transmission, it became the past one year. OFDM was used in digital audio/video transmission, wireless LAN and is currently under investigation for wireless fixed point transmission. This is book is one of the only two books about OFDM available now, and I think it is a good book. It gives a quite complete overview about wireless transmission, and also addresses the main techniques used in OFDM, including sychronization, channel equalization, peak-average power problems, etc.. It is the right book for starting OFDM. The only shortcome of this book is that I found the references given were not enough.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low Quality Book Even for Artech House Standards, August 30, 2004

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Good_Authors_Are_Retired (Sunnyvale, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications (Artech House Universal Personal Communications) (Hardcover)

Artech House, the folks that brought us poorly edited-or non-edited books bring you yet another example of self-referencing, poorly-written, cut and paste job. A very expensive one this time.

Of particular note is Chapter 5: Coherent and Differential Detection. Authors were busy copying and pasting covariance matrix entries but they forgot to check whether their equations for channel coefficients make sense. They dont.

In general, no attempt was made to provide insight. Self-advertisement, major errors, confused descriptions, pigeon English rule the land here. I wonder whether van Nee set up the organization of the book, and Prasad filled in the blanks, since the second author appears to be producing (I would not call that writing) too many books in a short time period. Where else, at Artech House of course.

Recommendation: Avoid.