Principles of Wireless Access and Localization

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John Wiley & Sons, Sep 3, 2013 - Technology & Engineering - 728 pages

A comprehensive, encompassing and accessible text examining a wide range of key Wireless Networking and Localization technologies

This book provides a unified treatment of issues related to all wireless access and wireless localization techniques. The book reflects principles of design and deployment of infrastructure for wireless access and localization for wide, local, and personal networking. Description of wireless access methods includes design and deployment of traditional TDMA and CDMA technologies and emerging Long Term Evolution (LTE) techniques for wide area cellular networks, the IEEE 802.11/WiFi wireless local area networks as well as IEEE 802.15 Bluetooth, ZigBee, Ultra Wideband (UWB), RF Microwave and body area networks used for sensor and ad hoc networks. The principles of wireless localization techniques using time-of-arrival and received-signal-strength of the wireless signal used in military and commercial applications in smart devices operating in urban, indoor and inside the human body localization are explained and compared.

Questions, problem sets and hands-on projects enhances the learning experience for students to understand and appreciate the subject. These include analytical and practical examples with software projects to challenge students in practically important simulation problems, and problem sets that use MatLab.

Key features:

  • Provides a broad coverage of main wireless technologies including emerging technical developments such as body area networking and cyber physical systems
  • Written in a tutorial form that can be used by students and researchers in the field
  • Includes practical examples and software projects to challenge students in practically important simulation problems
 

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Contents

Wireless LANs
Introduction
Deployment of Wireless Networks
Characteristics of the Wireless Medium
Physical Layer Alternatives for Wireless
Medium Access Methods
Wireless Network Operations
Wireless Network Security
TDMA Cellular Systems
CDMA Cellular Systems
OFDM and MIMO CelIuIar Systems
Geolocation Systems
Fundamentals of RF Localization
Wireless Localization in Practice
References
Index

Low Power Sensor Networks
Gigabit Wireless
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Principles of Wireless Access and Localization
Kaveh Pahlavan,Prashant Krishnamurthy
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Kaveh Pahlavan,Prashant Krishnamurthy
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Common terms and phrases

access point algorithms amplitude antenna area networks average bandwidth base station bits block Bluetooth calculation carrier CDMA cell cellular networks cellular systems cellular telephone Chapter co-channel coding communication connection coverage CSMA data networks data rate delay spread deployment distance encryption environment Equation error rate Example fade margin FDMA femtocell FHSS function gradient handoff hopping IEEE implementation increase infrastructure interference ratio Internet layer maximum Mbps mobile station mobile terminal modulation multiple noise ratio OFDM operation packet path loss path-loss models performance power control propagation protocol PSTN pulse random received signal strength reuse schemes sensor shadow fading shown in Figure signal to interference signal to noise slots spread spectrum standard symbol TDMA throughput topology traffic transmission rate transmission techniques transmit power users voice waveform wired wireless access wireless LAN wireless networks WLAN WPAN ZigBee

About the author (2013)

Kaveh Pahlavan, Professor of ECE, a Professor of CS, and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is also a visiting Professor of Telecommunication Laboratory and Center for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu, Finland. His area of research is location aware broadband sensor and ad hoc networks and he is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Wireless Information Networks, the first journal in modern wireless networks established in 1994.

Prashant Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor for the graduate program in Telecommunications & Networking at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. His research interests include Wireless network security, wireless data networks, position location for wireless networks on which he has written numerous journal papers.

Bibliographic information

TitlePrinciples of Wireless Access and Localization
Wiley Desktop Editions
AuthorsKaveh Pahlavan, Prashant Krishnamurthy
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013
ISBN1118629272, 9781118629277
Length728 pages
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Technology & Engineering / Electrical
Technology & Engineering / Electronics / General
Technology & Engineering / Telecommunications
  
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