Synopses & Reviews
Wireless Communication Technologies: New Multimedia Systems is based on a selection of the best papers presented at the recent International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC '99). All of the papers have been extended into full chapters, critiqued, and edited into a unified and structured book.
Contributions to this volume are by the leading specialist from their respective fields. The topics represent the newest ideas and research involving wireless multimedia systems and wireless technologies. Part I focuses on key developments and technologies and includes coverage of wireless channel modeling, space-time coding, coding for wireless networks, OFDM, software radio, and spatial and temporal communication theory. Chapters in Part II address many of the new wireless systems currently being standardized; such as, intelligent transport systems, wireless internet, digital TV broadcasting, and IMT-2000. Insights into many of the hot and rapidly developing research topics, such as bluetooth, Mobile IP, GPRS, and others, are discussed. Each chapter includes basic concepts and technical trends in addition to providing extensive technical coverage.
Researchers and engineers of wireless communication systems will benefit from insights and results reported in Wireless Communication Technologies: New Multimedia Systems. This work may also be suitable for graduate level courses on Wireless Communication Systems, Cellular Communication Systems, and Mobile Communications.
Synopsis
Wireless Communication Technologies: New Multimedia Systems is based on a selection of the best papers presented at the recent International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC '99). All of the papers have been extended into full chapters, critiqued, and edited into a unified and structured book. Contributions to this volume are by the leading specialist from their respective fields. The topics represent the newest ideas and research involving wireless multimedia systems and wireless technologies. Part I focuses on key developments and technologies and includes coverage of wireless channel modeling, space-time coding, coding for wireless networks, OFDM, software radio, and spatial and temporal communication theory. Chapters in Part II address many of the new wireless systems currently being standardized; such as, intelligent transport systems, wireless internet, digital TV broadcasting, and IMT-2000. Insights into many of the hot and rapidly developing research topics, such as bluetooth, Mobile IP, GPRS, and others, are discussed. Each chapter includes basic concepts and technical trends in addition to providing extensive technical coverage. Researchers and engineers of wireless communication systems will benefit from insights and results reported in Wireless Communication Technologies: New Multimedia Systems. This work may also be suitable for graduate level courses on Wireless Communication Systems, Cellular Communication Systems, and Mobile Communications.
Synopsis
During 12-15 of September 1999, 10th International Symposium on P- sonal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 99) was held in Osaka Japan, and it was really a successful symposium that accommodated more than 600 participants from more than 30 countries and regions. PIMRC is really well organized annual symposium for wireless multimedia commu- cation systems, in which, various up-to-date topics are discussed in the invited talk, panel discussions and tutorial sessions. One of the unique features of the PIMRC is that PIMRC is continuing to publish, from Kluwer Academic Publishers since 1997, a book that collects the hottest topics discussed in PIMRC. In PIMRC 97, Invited talks were sum- rized in Wireless Communications TDMA versus CDMA (ISBN 0-7923- 8005-3), and it was published just beforePIMRC 97. This book was also distributed to all the PIMRC 97 participants as a part of proceedings for the conference. In PIMRC 98, extendedversion of the invited papers were s- marized in Wireless Multimedia Network Technologies (ISBN 0-7923-8633- 7) and published in September 1999, which is almost the same timing for the PIMRC 99. In the case of PIMRC 99, to produce more informative book, we have - lected topics that attracted many PIMRC 99 participants during the conf- ence, and invited prospective authors not only from the invited speakers but also from tutorial speakers, panel organizers, panelists, and some other exc- lent PIMRC 99 participants."
Table of Contents
Preface.
Part I: New Technical Trend in Wireless Multimedia Communications. 1. Spatial Channel Modeling for Wireless Communications;
G.D. Durgin, Th.S. Rappaport. 2. Space-Time Coding for High Data Rate Wireless Communications;
A.F. Naguib, R. Calderbank. 3. Coding for the wireless channel;
E. Biglieri, et al. 4. OFDM - The Most Elegant Solution for Wireless Digital Transmission;
S. Hara. 5. Overview on Linear Multiuser Equalizers for DS-CDMA Systems;
M. Juntti, K. Hooli. 6. Software-Defined Radio Technologies.
7. Spatial and Temporal Communication Theory Based on Adaptive Antenna Array;
R. Kohno. Part II: Trends in New Wireless Multimedia Communication Systems. 8. Intelligent Transport Systems;
M. Fujise, et al. 9. Wireless Data Communications Systems;
K. Pahlavan, et al. 10. Wireless Internet - Networking Aspect;
L.F. Chang. 11. Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting Systems;
M. Itami. 12. IMT-2000 - Challenges of Wireless Millennium;
F. Adachi, M. Sawahashi. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Index. About the Editors. Contributors.