Wireless Personal Communications: Channel Modeling and Systems Engineering (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) [Hardcover]

William H. Tranter (Editor), Brian D. Woerner (Editor), Theodore S. Rappaport (Editor), Jeffrey H. Reed (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0792377052 | ISBN-13: 978-0792377054 | Edition: 1st

Wireless Personal Communications: Channel Modeling and Systems Engineering presents a broad range of topics in wireless communications, including perspectives from both industry and academia. This book serves as a reflection of emerging technologies in wireless communications and features papers from world-renowned authors on the subject.
Wireless Personal Communications: Channel Modeling and Systems Engineering is divided into six sections. The first five of these cover the following topics: Propagation and Channel Modeling (4 papers); Antennas (6 papers); Multiuser Detection (3 papers); Radio Systems and Technology (4 papers); and Wireless Data (3 papers). The last section contains invited papers on areas of significant interest.
Wireless Personal Communications: Channel Modeling and Systems Engineering serves as an excellent reference source and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject. It is an essential tool for graduate students, postgraduate researchers, academics, and anyone working in the research aspect of the wireless communications industry.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (November 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792377052
• ISBN-13: 978-0792377054
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Vast commercial potential in this field, February 8, 2004

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This review is from: Wireless Personal Communications: Channel Modeling and Systems Engineering (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) (Hardcover)

The field of wireless personal communications is experiencing rapid growth worldwide. Most clearly seen in the huge uptake of cellphones in Europe, Japan and, to a lesser extent, the United States and China. Plus, WiFi has taken off strongly in the developed world, with enhanced 802.11 standards being quickly solidified and adopted.

This volume, as of its writing in 2000, describes much of the engineering and theoretical underpinning of this field. It does not have the 802.11 standards that came out after 2000, but much of the book is still very germane. There is no lack of research interest in this field, driven in no small part by the anticipation that nomadic computer and the rise of the pervasive Web have yet to occur. Still early days for those, we hope.

The field contains tough issues, as may be seen in several papers in the book. In earlier decades, wireless communications were often to and from antennas at fixed locations, with ample power. Or, if the antennas were mobile, like on planes, usually power was not a consideration. Nor the possible maximum length of the antennas. But in modern personal mobile uses, the constraints are far tighter. Power must be minimized, and you cannot draw out a one meter antenna.

Which gives great potential for researchers like yourself to invent and commercialise new applications, if you can overcome these challenges, aided perhaps by ideas in this book!