Wireless Digital Communications Fundamentals

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• Amplitude Modulation • Bit Error Rate (BER) • CDMA • CDMA2000 • Comparison of Mobile Phone Standards • Eb/No • Fourier Transform • Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum • Frequency-shift Keying • Global Positioning System (GPS) • Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) • GMSK • GPRS • High-speed Circuit-switched Data (HSCSD) • Modulation • Near-far problem • Non-return-to-zero • Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) • Shannon's Theorem • Spread Spectrum • Time-division Multiple Access (TDMA) • Time-division Multiplexing • Ultra Wideband (UWB) • W-CDMA

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Book-Signal Processing for Wireless Communications
Joe Boccuzzi
Signal Processing for Wireless Communications offers communications engineers an application-focused guide to the essential concepts and techniques of wireless signal processing. This comprehensive reference examines the role that key algorithms and standard migration paths play in the design and day-to-day operations of today's state-of-the-art wireless networks.

Book-Wireless And Personal Communications Systems (PCS): Fundamentals and Applications
Vijay Garg
PCS (Personal Communication Systems) will provide the convenience of FAX, Email and voice mail in a package similar to cellular phones. This book describes both Personal Communication Systems and mobile networks — and as they are envisioned for the future. KEY TOPICS: The first half of this book covers the theory of wireless communications, presenting the historical background of wireless telephony and the evolution of wireless technologies in the U.S. and Europe. The second half of the book presents the analog and digital (cellular and PCS) systems used in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. For wireless engineers and those interested in marketing wireless products in the United States.

Book-IS-95 CDMA and cdma 2000: Cellular/PCS Systems Implementation
Vijay Garg
The Next Generation: Wireless Communications for Multimedia and Beyond Of all wireless technologies for personal communications, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) offers the best combination of good signal quality, high security, low power consumption, and excellent system reliability. Features added in the IS-95 standard means this impressive list now also includes Third Generation (3G) data capabilities that will allow CDMA providers to offer Internet and intranet services for multimedia applications, high-speed business transactions, and telemetry. The upcoming cdma2000 standard will further expand usable bandwidth without sacrificing voice quality or requiring additional spectrum. In this book by an experienced telecommunications authority, you will learn how to maximize the power of CDMA, migrate existing systems to the newest standards, and prepare for a smooth transition to features yet to come. IS-95 CDMA and cdma2000: Cellular/PCS Systems Implementation covers all aspects of up-to-date CDMA implementation and operation, including: * Coding and architecture * Radio interface and call flow * Physical, data link, and signaling layers * Handoff and power control * System security * Wireless Data * Reverse and Forward Link Capacity * RF Engineering and network planning * Evolution to Third Generation systems Practicing engineers and their managers will benefit from the in-depth coverage of IS-95 systems, RF engineering, and capacity planning. Students will appreciate the forward-looking approach that offers a look at the future of the industry where they are preparing for careers. IS-95 CDMA and cdma2000: Cellular/PCS Systems Implementation offers both practical applications information and conveniently organized reference materials for anyone interested in the next generation of wireless telecommunications.

Book-Practical Digital Wireless Signals
Earl McCune
Do you need to know what signal type to select for a wireless application? Quickly develop a useful expertise in digital modulation with this practical guide, based on the author's experience of over 30 years in industrial design. You will understand the physical meaning behind the mathematics of wireless signals and learn the intricacies and tradeoffs in signal selection and design. Six modulation families and 12 modulation types are covered in depth, together with a quantitative ranking of relative cost incurred to implement any of 12 modulation types. Extensive discussions of the Shannon Limit, Nyquist filtering, efficiency measures and signal-to-noise measures are provided, radio wave propagation and antennas, multiple access techniques, and signal coding principles are all covered, and spread spectrum and wireless system operation requirements are presented.

Article-Modern Wireless Signals
Earl McCune
With the evolution of wireless systems and services, the on-air signals themselves are also undergoing very significant transformations. This paper provides a survey of the active and coming-soon signal types adopted for wireless systems around the world. Focus is on modulation schemes, along with various measures used to characterize the signals before and after power amplification. Cost-benefit tradeoff information is introduced to provide perspective on this signal evolution.

Book-Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition)
Theodore Rappaport
The indispensable guide to wireless communications—now fully revised and updated! Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition is the definitive modern text for wireless communications technology and system design. Building on his classic first edition, Theodore S. Rappaport covers the fundamental issues impacting all wireless networks and reviews virtually every important new wireless standard and technological development, offering especially comprehensive coverage of the 3G systems and wireless local area networks (WLANs) that will transform communications in the coming years. Rappaport illustrates each key concept with practical examples, thoroughly explained and solved step by step. Whether you're a communications/network professional, manager, researcher, or student, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition gives you an in-depth understanding of the state of the art in wireless technology—today's and tomorrow's.

RF:This book is a good reference on different wireless standards as well as basic fundamentals.

Applet-CDMA Coding Demo Applet
Jörg Roth
German applet that demonstrates CDMA multiple access coding. Allows user to see the process of coding/decoding in real time. Excellent demo, site is in German language.

Site-Tutorial Videos on Wireless Digital Signals
Keith Schaub
Short tutorial videos on complex signals

Book-Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications (2nd Edition)
Bernard Sklar
The book traces the signals and key processing steps from the information source, through the transmitter, channel, receiver, and ultimately to the information sink. Emphasis is placed on system goals and the need to trade-off basic system parameters such as signal-to-noise ratio, probability of error, and bandwidth.

Instructor bio for Bernard Sklar

Book-OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications
Richard Van Nee and Ramjee Prasad
A practical guide on how to plan, design, and use Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM) to generate mobile multimedia communications...also examines the basics of direct sequence and frequency hopping CDMA.

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