Principles of Wireless Networks: A Unified Approach (Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies Series)

-- Extensive practical examples illuminate the common features, key differences, and specific implementation issues associated with leading wireless systems.-- Presents structured introductions to the fundamental concepts of voice (cellular and PCS), mobile, and wideband data networks.-- Exclusive, in-depth coverage of physical layer issues, channel characteristics, and deployment tools.This is the first book to present a unified common foundation for understanding and building any contemporary wireless network, voice or data -- from PCS to wireless LANs to Bluetooth, and beyond. Using extensive practical examples, the authors illuminate the common features, key differences, and specific implementation issues associated with a wide range of leading wireless systems. They begin by outlining the underlying principles of wireless networks, then review the implementation of legacy cellular telephone and mobile data networks based on CDMA and TDMA. Next, they offer in-depth coverage of key emerging wideband local access technologies, including data-oriented IEEE 802.11 WLANs, HIPERLAN, Bluetooth, WPAN, and ad hoc networking. Principles of Wireless Networks features comprehensive, example-rich coverage of physical layer issues, channel characteristics, and deployment tools that can be found in no other book.