Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Chaired Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is a Professor of Computer Science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He is also a Professor of Radiology at the NYU School of Medicine. He also serves as the founding director of NYU WIRELESS. Biography Theodore S. Rappaport (S’83–M’84–SM’91–F’98) is currently the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor with New York University (NYU) and holds faculty appointments in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the Courant Computer Science Department, and the NYU Langone School of Medicine.

About Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice:
Hardcover: 736 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (January 10, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0130422320
ISBN-13: 978-0130422323
Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.7 x 9.6 inches
Wireless Communications, Second Edition is the definitive general information technology professional wireless communication and system design. Based on the classic first edition, Theodore S. Rappaport reviews virtually every important new wireless standard and technological development, including W-CDMA, CDMA2000, UMTS, and UMC 136 / EDGE; HIPERLAN and IEEE 802.11 WLANs; Bluetooth, LMDS, and much more. Contains dozens of new examples solved step by step.
Book Overview:

• An overview of the major wireless technologies: voice, data, wireless, paging, fixed and mobile broadband wireless, and more
• Wireless system design fundamentals: channel assignment, transfer, efficiency trunking, interference, frequency reuse, capacity planning, large-scale fading, and more
• Path loss, small scale fading, multiple, reflection, diffraction, scattering, shading, modeling of spatial and temporal propagation channel and microcell / indoor
• Modulation, equalization, diversity, channel coding and speech coding
• Wireless LAN of the new technology: IEEE 802.11a / b, HIPERLAN, bran, and other alternatives
• Air interface standards new 3G such as W-CDMA, CDMA2000, GPRS, UMTS, EDGE and Bluetooth laptops, fixed wireless and LMDS (LMDS), and other advanced technologies
• Updated abbreviations and acronyms, and a complete list of references
• Dozens of new examples and end-of-chapter problems

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