Wireless communications /

The past decade has witnessed the explosive growth of wireless communication systems including cellular telephones, wireless local area networks, wide area wireless data systems, satellite systems, and ad hoc wireless networks. Goldsmith (electrical engineering, Stanford Univ.) presents the theory and analysis of wireless communications systems, including insights and trade-offs associated with their design. Current and future systems are used as examples to motivate these principles. Goldsmith includes an overview of wireless systems, history of current systems and standards, visions for the future wireless channel characteristics (including effects of fading, multipath, path loss, shadowing, channel models, and capacity limits), performance of digital modulation techniques operating in wireless channels, mitigation techniques to combat fading (including diversity, coding, adaptive modulation, multiple transmit and receive antennas, equalization, multicarrier modulation schemes, and spread spectrum), multiple access schemes, design, optimization, and performance analysis of cellular systems, and wireless ad hoc networks. Goldsmith includes numerous worked-out examples as well as many homework exercises, making the book very suitable as a course resource. Well written and illustrated with an extensive bibliography; for seniors and graduate students majoring in electrical engineering as well as for the practicing engineer. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. F. A. Cassara Polytechnic University