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Mobile Channel Characteristics

  • Textbook
  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. James K. Cavers

    1. Simon Fraser University, Canada

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 555)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Path Loss

    Pages 1-13

  3. Shadowing

    Pages 15-22

  4. Fading and Delay Spread

    Pages 23-38

  5. First Order Statistics of Fading

    Pages 39-57

  6. Second Order Statistics of Fading

    Pages 59-90

  7. Connecting Fading Statistics with Performance

    Pages 91-104

  8. A Gallery of Channels

    Pages 105-114

  9. Differences Between Mobile and Base Correlations

    Pages 115-135

  10. Simulating Fading Channels

    Pages 137-160

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 161-226
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Mobile Channel Characteristics introduces the principal transmission phenomena of mobile and personal communication - the ones that affect design of modems, channel simulators, smart antennas, and other system components at the physical level. It is designed to be accessible to senior undergraduates, as well as graduate students and working engineers. The treatment parallels mathematical derivations with intuitive explanations and simple approximations in order to develop the reader's understanding of the phenomena. Because of this strong tutorial flavor, the text is also suitable for those entering the area from a different academic discipline.
Mobile Channel Characteristics was conceived and written as an interactive text to be viewed on a computer screen. It includes many features not found in conventional texts:
  • The entire text resides on your hard drive. It is always ready, just a mouse-click away;
  • It is a live document. Try different parameter values, and the equations, tables and graphs recalculate as you watch. Animated graphics illustrate dynamics of the channel. Explore propagation, modulation or system models interactively to gain additional insight;
  • The examples and appendices are `tear-off design sheets'. You can use their programs on the job or in your thesis to speed up your work;
  • It links you to the world. Hyperlinks connect you to websites of cited authors, to online research journals, and to employers and graduate schools, all through the Internet.
Mobile Channel Characteristics includes working programs for three different methods of channel gain generation for fading channel simulation, as well as working programs to illustrate their use.
Mobile Channel Characteristics is an essential reference tool for practising engineers, researchers, academics, and students. It is a self-study text equally suited for classroomuse.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Simon Fraser University, Canada

    James K. Cavers

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