Multi-carrier technologies have emerged as important instruments in
telecommunications. OFDM is in the forefront, with its adoption by the
IEEE 802.11 standards committee and the European HYPERLAN standards
group. Following OFDM, MC-CDMA is also demonstrating considerable
promise when compared to competing technologies. According to the
authors, these technologies are just the beginning in the coming
multi-carrier revolution.
In Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication, the authors
explain how a common multi-carrier platform is being designed for
DS-CDMA, TDMA, OFDM and MC-CDMA systems. Findings are presented which
show how this multi-carrier platform enhances network capacity and
probability of error performance.Specific results include (1) innovation
in multi-carrier technologies that are enabling them to become an
integral part of TDMA and DS-CDMA systems; and (2) the design of
multi-carrier systems to overcome PAPR problems (in, e.g., OFDM).
Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication is an important
book for engineers who work with DS-CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, or MC-CDMA
systems, and are seeking new ways of exploiting the wireless medium
based on a "smarter" signal processing.