<B>A Coherent Systems View of Wireless and Cellular Network Design and Implementation<BR><BR></B>Written for senior-level undergraduates, first-year graduate students, and junior technical professionals, <B><I>Introduction to Wireless Systems</I></B> offers a coherent systems view of the crucial lower layers of today's cellular systems. The authors introduce today's most important propagation issues, modulation techniques, and access schemes, illuminating theory with real-world examples from modern cellular systems. They demonstrate how elements within today's wireless systems interrelate, clarify the trade-offs associated with delivering high-quality service at acceptable cost, and demonstrate how systems are designed and implemented by teams of complementary specialists.<BR><BR>Coverage includes<BR> <UL> <LI>Understanding the challenge of moving information wirelessly between two points <LI>Explaining how system and subsystem designers work together to analyze, plan, and implement optimized wireless systems <LI>Designing for quality reception: using the free-space range equation, and accounting for thermal noise <LI>Understanding terrestrial channels and their impairments, including shadowing and multipath reception <LI>Reusing frequencies to provide service over wide areas to large subscriber bases <LI>Using modulation: frequency efficiency, power efficiency, BER, bandwidth, adjacent-channel interference, and spread-spectrum modulation <LI>Implementing multiple access methods, including FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA <LI>Designing systems for today's most common forms of traffic—both “bursty” and “streaming” <LI>Maximizing capacity via linear predictive coding and other speech compression techniques <LI>Setting up connections that support reliable communication among users</LI></UL><B><BR><I>Introduction to Wireless Systems </I></B>brings together the theoretical and practical knowledge readers need to participate effectively in the planning, design, or implementation of virtually any wireless system.<B><BR></B><BR>