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 classroom use.
