Emergingmarketshaveseenanunprecedentedgrowthinthelastfewyears.Theoperatorfocus
has been on giving complete coverage to all regions (urban to rural) and to subscription to all –
people from the highest to the lowest income groups. When the idea is taking coverage for
the remotest of the regions and getting the ‘unconnected–connected’, technology and business
modelling are two important focus areas.
Employing multiple transmit and receive antennas, namely using multi-input multi-output
(MIMO) systems, has proven to be a major breakthrough in providing reliable wireless
communication links. Since their invention in the mid-1990s, transmit diversity, achieved
through space-time coding, and spatial multiplexing schemes have been the focus of much
research in the area of wireless communications.
The telecommunications industry is undoubtedly in a period of radical change with
the advent of mobile broadband radio access and the rapid convergence of Internet
and mobile services. Some of these changes have been enabled by a fundamental
shift in the underlying technologies; mobile networks are now increasingly based
on a pure Internet Protocol (IP) network architecture. Since the first edition of this
book was published in 2009, a multitude of connected devices from eBook readers
to smartphones and even Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technologies have all started
to benefit from mobile broadband. The sea change over the last few years is only the
beginning of a wave of new services that will fundamentally change our economy, our
society, and even our environment. The evolution towards mobile broadband is one of
the core underlying parts of this revolution and is the focus of this book.
This preface is somewhat different from prefaces found in similar books because it does not
focus so much on the content of the book.We have instead chosen to write a few words about
our own experiences from working with telephony services over Internet Protocol (IP). Here
are our stories.
This book is intended for RF planners, to serve as a practical tool in their daily work
designing indoor radio distribution systems.
Based on feedback from readers of the first edition it was clear to me that I needed to add
more material and in depth description of the basics of indoor systems based on using
repeaters; this has grown into a new Section 4.7.
There was also a strong demand to add more detail and dedicate a full chapter to radio
planning in tunnels, for both rail and road tunnels; and redundancy principles in the design
focus for solving the challenge of handover zones. An entire Chapter 11 is now dedicated to
tunnel radio planning.
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.
This book focuses on the study and development of one of the most
advanced topics in broadband wireless communications systems:
power efficiency and power consumption in wireless communications
systems, especially of mobile devices. Hence, the main focus of this
book is on the most recent techniques for the conservation of power
and increase in power efficiency.
Thanks for purchasing the RFI Pocket Guide. The
purpose of this guide to help you identify, locate
and resolve radio frequency interference (RFI). It
includes some basic theory and measurement
techniques and there are a number of handy
references, tables, and equations that you may
find useful. The focus is to assist both amateur
radio operators, as well as commercial broadcast
and communications engineers, in resolving a
variety of common interference issues.
Part I provides a compact survey on classical stochastic geometry models. The basic models defined
in this part will be used and extended throughout the whole monograph, and in particular to SINR based
models. Note however that these classical stochastic models can be used in a variety of contexts which
go far beyond the modeling of wireless networks. Chapter 1 reviews the definition and basic properties of
Poisson point processes in Euclidean space. We review key operations on Poisson point processes (thinning,
superposition, displacement) as well as key formulas like Campbell’s formula. Chapter 2 is focused on
properties of the spatial shot-noise process: its continuity properties, its Laplace transform, its moments
etc. Both additive and max shot-noise processes are studied. Chapter 3 bears on coverage processes,
and in particular on the Boolean model. Its basic coverage characteristics are reviewed. We also give a
brief account of its percolation properties. Chapter 4 studies random tessellations; the main focus is on
Poisson–Voronoi tessellations and cells. We also discuss various random objects associated with bivariate
point processes such as the set of points of the first point process that fall in a Voronoi cell w.r.t. the second
point process.
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his book covers basic communications theory and practical imple-
mentation of transmitters and receivers. In so doing, I focus on dig-
ital modulation, demodulation methods, probabilities, detection of
digital signals, and spread spectrum system design and analysis. This book
was written for those who want a good understanding of the basic prin-
ciples of digital wireless communication systems, including spread spec-
trum techniques. This book also provides a good intuitive and practical
approach to digital communications. Therefore it is a valuable resource for
anyoneinvolvedinwirelesscommunicationsandtransceiverdesignfordig-
ital communications. The reader will gain a broad understanding of basic
communication principles for transceiver design, digital communications,
and spread spectrum, along with examples of many types of commercial
and military data link systems.