Wireless Communications

Theodore S. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor at New York University (NYU) and founded the NYU WIRELESS research center and the wireless research centers at the University of Texas Austin and Virginia Tech. Professor Rappaport is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Wireless Hall of Fame, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and a fellow of the IEEE.

• Preface; 1. Introduction to wireless communication systems; 2. Modern wireless communication systems; 3. The cellular concept-system design fundamentals; 4. Mobile radio propagation: large-scale path loss; 5. Mobile radio propagation: small-scale fading and multipath; 6. Modulation techniques for mobile radio; 7. Equalization, diversity, and channel coding; 8. Speech coding; 9. Multiple access techniques for wireless communications; 10. Wireless networking; 11. Wireless systems and standards: Appendix A. Trunking theory; Appendix B. Noise figure calculations for link budgets; Appendix C. Rate variance relationships for shape factory theory; Appendix D. Approximate spatial autocovariance function for shape factor theory; Appendix E. Gaussian approximations for spread spectrum CDMA; Appendix F. Q, erf & erfc functions; Appendix G. Mathematical tables, functions, and transforms; Appendix H. Abbreviations and acronyms, Appendix I. References; Index.