Wireless Communication Systems: From RF Subsystems to 4G Enabling Technologies

by Ke-Lin Du, M. N. S. Swamy

Overview

This practically-oriented, all-inclusive guide covers all the major enabling techniques for current and next-generation cellular communications and wireless networking systems. Technologies covered include CDMA, OFDM, UWB, turbo and LDPC coding, smart antennas, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, MIMO, and cognitive radios, providing readers with everything they need to master wireless systems design in a single volume. Uniquely, a detailed introduction to the properties, design, and selection of RF subsystems and antennas is provided, giving readers a clear overview of the whole wireless system. It is also the first textbook to include a complete introduction to speech coders and video coders used in wireless systems. Richly illustrated with over 400 figures, and with a unique emphasis on practical and state-of-the-art techniques in system design, rather than on the mathematical foundations, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in wireless communications, as well as for wireless and telecom engineers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521114035
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	1020
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.80(h) x 2.00(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. An overview of wireless communications; 3. Channel and propagation; 4. Cellular and multiple-user systems; 5. Diversity; 6. Channel estimation and equalization; 7. Modulation and detection; 8. Spread spectrum communications; 9. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; 10. Antennas; 11. RF and microwave subsystems; 12. A/D and D/A conversions; 13. Signals and signal processing; 14. Fundamentals of information theory; 15. Channel coding; 16. Source coding I: speech and audio coding; 17. Source coding II: image and video coding; 18. Multiple antennas: smart antenna systems; 19. Multiple antennas: MIMO systems; 20. Ultra wideband communications; 22. Wireless ad hoc/sensor networks; The Q-function; Wirtinger calculus.