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Fundamentals of Wireless Communication

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Now with exercises included! Introduction; PDF The wireless channel; PDF Point-to-point communication: detection, diversity and channel uncertainty; PDF Cellular systems: multiple access and interference management; PDF Capacity of wireless channels;PDF Multiuser capacity and opportunistic communication;PDF MIMO I: spatial multiplexing and channel modeling; PDF MIMO II: capacity and multiplexing architectures;PDF MIMO III: diversity-multiplexing tradeoff and universal space-time codes;PDF MIMO IV: multiuser communication.PDF Appendix A: Detection and estimation in additive Gaussian noise; PDF Appendix B: Information theory from first principles.PDF References and Index.PDF

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Book Description The past decade has seen many advances in physical-layer wireless communication theory and their implementation in wireless systems. This textbook takes a unified view of the fundamentals of wireless communication and explains the web of concepts underpinning these advances at a level accessible to an audience with a basic background in probability and digital communication. Topics covered include MIMO (multiple input multiple output) communication, space-time coding, opportunistic communication, OFDM and CDMA. The concepts are illustrated using many examples from wireless systems such as GSM, IS-95 (CDMA), IS-856(1xEV-DO), Flash OFDM and ArrayComm SDMA systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the interplay between concepts and their implementation in systems. An abundant supply of exercises and figures reinforce the material in the text. This book is intended for use on graduate courses in electrical and computer engineering and will also be of great interest to practicing engineers.

Reviews Errata Updated as of Feb 18, 2010. Please contact the authors if you have comments or spot more errors.

Resources for Instructors Solutions and Lecture Slides: Solutions to some of the exercises as well as powerpoint lecture slides are available for course instructors. Please go here for instructions on how to download them.

Examination Copy: Instructors can also request an inspection copy from Ms. Robin Silverman of Cambridge University Press: rsilverman at cambridge dot org.

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