LTE-Advanced becomes a truly global standard for 4G cellular communications.
Relay, as one of the key technologies of LTE-Advanced, can significantly extend
the coverage, and improve the system throughput. LTE-A standards and tech-
nologies were described in several Recent books where the limited pages for relay
feature prevent the detailed explanations of the technology. In this book, we tried
to provide an in-depth description of LTE-A relay development. More specifically,
significant portions are spent on relay channel modeling and potential technologies
during the study item phase of the development, although some of those tech-
nologies, such as Type 2 cooperative relay, multi-hop relay, relay with backhaul of
carrier aggregation, were not standardized in Release 10 LTE.
Use of multiple antennas at both ends of wireless links is the result of the
natural progression of more than four decades of evolution of adaptive
antenna technology. Recent advances have demonstrated that multiple-
input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems can achieve impressive
increases in overall system performance.
This book is exclusively dedicated to WiMAX. The focus of the book is
on the applications of WiMAX networks, with delivery of multimedia
content to wireless and mobile devices being the area of greatest atten-
tion. WiMAX has crossed a number of major milestones in the Recent
past.
The growth of mobile technologies is remarkable. At a Recent Mobile World Congress Conference, Eric
Schmidt, CEO of Google predicted that within three years, smart phones will surpass Personal Com-
puter sales. The number of mobile phones used worldwide has exceeded 4.6 billion with continued
growth expected in the future. In fact, in the United States alone, the numbers of mobile phone users
comprise over 80% of the population.
In Recent years, the research and developments in the area of RF and microwave
technologies have progressed significantly due to the growing demand for applica-
bility in wireless communication technologies. Starting from 1992, wireless com-
munication technologies have become quite mature. In the modern era of electronic
developments, design of wireless handsets is an example of integration of many di-
verse skill sets. Classical books in the areas of microwave technology provide us
with an in-depth knowledge of electromagnetic fundamentals.
At Recent major international conferences on wireless communications,
there have been several sessions on beyond third generation (3G) or fourth
generation(4G)mobilecommunicationssystems,wheremodulation/demod-
ulation and multiplexing/multiple access schemes related to multicarrier
techniques have drawn a lot of attention. We often met at the conference
venuesandrealizedthatnobookcoveredthebasicsofmulticarriertechniques
to Recent applications aiming at the 4G systems. Therefore, we decided to
write a book on multicarrier techniques for 4G mobile communications
systems.
The family of Recent wireless standards included the optional employment of Multiple-Input
Multiple-Output(MIMO)techniques.This was motivatedby the observationaccordingto the
classic Shannon–Hartley law that the achievable channel capacity increases logarithmically
with the transmit power. In contrast, the MIMO capacity increases linearly with the number
of transmit antennas, provided that the number of receive antennas is equal to the number
of transmit antennas. With the further proviso that the total transmit power is increased in
proportion to the number of transmit antennas, a linear capacity increase is achieved upon
increasing the transmit power, which justifies the spectacular success of MIMO systems.
The family of Recent wireless standards included the optional employment of MIMO tyechniques.
This was motivated by the observation according to the classic Shannon-Hartley law the achiev-
able channel capacity increases logarithmically with the transmit power. By contrast, the MIMO
capacity increases linearly with the number of transmit antennas, provided that the number of
receive antennas is equal to the number of transmit antennas.
The family of Recent wireless standards included the optional employment of MIMO tyechniques.
This was motivated by the observation according to the classic Shannon-Hartley law the achiev-
able channel capacity increases logarithmically with the transmit power. By contrast, the MIMO
capacity increases linearly with the number of transmit antennas, provided that the number of
receive antennas is equal to the number of transmit antennas.
Coverage of routing techniques in various wired and wireless networks is the unique
proposition of this book. Routing protocols and algorithms are the brains of any network.
The selection of topics in this book is clear: we attempt to explain routing in its entirety,
starting from fundamental concepts, then moving through routing on the Internet, and
finally cutting across the Recent‐day cellular, ad hoc, and wireless networks.
