Product Description

Provides necessary training in the field of mobile communications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #893389 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

From the Back Cover
LEARN THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OF MOBILE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICAITONS

With more than 115 million users of wireless technologies in the United States, there is simply no faster growing and more exciting area in telecommunications today. Now, P.M. Shankar's INTRODUCTION TO WIRELSS SYSTEMS equips you with the necessary training you need to explore this dynamic field.

This unique text is the first and only introduction to wireless systems written specifically for undergraduate students.. The text helps you learn the science and engineering of mobile and wireless communication by clearly developing analytical tools, fundamental physics, and communication theory. Coverage spans the complete range of topics related to modern wireless communications, including propagation effects, wireless modems, cells and cell design, diversity, dispersion, fading, multiplexing techniques, 3G systems, OFDM systems, Bluetooth wireless networks, and more.

FEATURES

• Many worked-out examples make the concepts easier to understand.
• MATLAB-based exercise sets enable you to put theory into practice, vary parameters, and explore the resulting changes in the characteristic features of wireless signals.
• Numerous exercises and problem material in every chapter.
• Comprehensive coverage addresses the full range of wireless technologies, techniques, tools, and principles.
• Chapter summaries help you review key concepts.
• A Comprehensive list of reference allows you to explore topics in greater detail.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic introduction
This book is a very impressive introduction to wireless systems. Since I knew practically nothing before getting this book, and I was attempting to use Stuber, this book was a life saver.

There are many many diagrams that clearly show the affects of fading (ralyeigh, lognormal etc), as well as very clear derivations of how rayleigh is produced from two normal R.V.'s and so on.

I also really liked all the examples. There must be 15 examples per chapter (compared with 1 per chapter in Stuber, and his chapters are like 150 pages long).

To understand this book you will need a least one course in "signals and systems" as well as a course that deals with probability (up to Normal distributions and random variables and processes would also help you), and a course on modulation theory, such as quadrature and inphase components and power spectral density. If you have that background information you will really enjoy this book.

This book is even more of an introduction that Rappaport. By using this book and Rappaports together, you will have a fighting chance at terrible books like Stuber's.

Once again though, it was really refreshing to see a book written like this. Hey Dr. Shankar, why not write a thicker book to get Stubers book off the market?