Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition)
The indispensable guide to wireless communications—now fully revised and updated!Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition is the definitive modern text for wireless communications technology and system design. Building on his classic first edition, Theodore S. Rappaport covers the fundamental issues impacting all wireless networks and reviews virtually every important new wireless standard and technological development, offering especially comprehensive coverage of the 3G systems and wireless local area networks (WLANs) that will transform communications in the coming years. Rappaport illustrates each key concept with practical examples, thoroughly explained and solved step by step. Coverage includes:An overview of key wireless technologies: voice, data, cordless, paging, fixed and mobile broadband wireless systems, and beyondWireless system design fundamentals: channel assignment, handoffs, trunking efficiency, interference, frequency reuse, capacity planning, large-scale fading, and morePath loss, small-scale fading, multipath, reflection, diffraction, scattering, shadowing, spatial-temporal channel modeling, and microcell/indoor propagationModulation, equalization, diversity, channel coding, and speech codingNew wireless LAN technologies: IEEE 802.11a/b, HIPERLAN, BRAN, and other alternativesNew 3G air interface standards, including W-CDMA, cdma2000, GPRS, UMTS, and EDGEBluetooth wearable computers, fixed wireless and Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS), and other advanced technologiesUpdated glossary of abbreviations and acronyms, and a thorough list of referencesDozens of new examples and end-of-chapter problemsWhether you're a communications/network professional, manager, researcher, or student,Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition gives you an in-depth understanding of the state of the art in wireless technology—today's and tomorrow's.