RF Engineering for Wireless Networks

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Pub. Date: 2004-11-22
Publisher(s): Elsevier Science
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Summary

Finally, here is a single volume containing all of the engineering information needed to successfully design and implement any type of wireless network! Author Dan Dobkin covers every aspect of RF engineering necessary for wireless networks. He begins with a review of essential math and electromagnetic theory followed by thorough discussions of multiplexing, modulation types, bandwidth, link budgets, network concepts, radio system architectures, RF amplifiers, mixers and frequency conversion, filters, single-chip radio systems, antenna theory and designs, signal propagation, as well as planning and implementing wireless networks for both indoor and outdoor environments. The appendices contain such vital data as U.S., European, and Japanese technical and regulatory standards for wireless networks, measurements in wireless networks, reflection and matching of transmission lines, determining power density, and much more. The accompanying CD includes useful software tools such as a link budget calculator, a Smith Chart calculator and plotter, and radio chain analysis utilities. No matter what type of wireless network you designBluetooth, UWB, or even metropolitan area network (MAN)this book is the one reference you cant do without!

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(8)
The Beauty of Wires, the Inevitability of Wireless
1(1)
What You Need to Proceed
2(1)
An Overview of What Is to Come
3(3)
Acknowledgments
6(1)
Further Reading
6(3)
Basics of Wireless Communications
9(48)
Harmonic Signals and Exponentials
9(4)
Electromagnetic Waves and Multiplexing
13(4)
Modulation and Bandwidth
17(29)
Wireless Link Overview: Systems, Power, Noise, and Link Budgets
46(9)
Capsule Summary: Chapter 2
55(1)
Further Reading
55(2)
Basics of Wireless Local Area Networks
57(50)
Networks Large and Small
57(3)
WLANs from LANs
60(2)
802.11 WLANs
62(29)
HiperLAN and HiperLAN 2
91(1)
From LANs to PANs
92(12)
Capsule Summary: Chapter 3
104(1)
Further Reading
105(2)
Radio Transmitters and Receivers
107(86)
Overview of Radios
107(7)
Radio Components
114(57)
Radio System Design
171(7)
Examples of Radio Chips and Chipsets
178(10)
Capsule Summary: Chapter 4
188(2)
Further Reading
190(3)
Antennas
193(58)
Not Your Father's E & M
193(1)
Radiation: The Wireless Wire
193(2)
The Ideal Dipole
195(6)
Antenna Radiation Patterns
201(7)
Antennas as Receivers
208(5)
Survey of Common Antennas
213(27)
Cables and Connectors
240(8)
Capsule Summary: Chapter 5
248(1)
Further Reading
248(3)
Propagation
251(54)
Propagation in Free Space
251(1)
Propagation in Earthbound Environments
251(37)
Multipath Propagation: Fading and Delay
288(11)
Statistical Modeling of Propagation
299(4)
Capsule Summary: Chapter 6
303(1)
Further Reading
303(2)
Indoor Networks
305(48)
Behind Closed Doors
305(1)
How Buildings Are Built (with W. Charles Perry, P.E.)
305(10)
Microwave Properties of Building Materials
315(8)
Realistic Metal Obstacles
323(2)
Real Indoor Propagation
325(8)
How Much Is Enough?
333(3)
Indoor Interferers
336(8)
Tools for Indoor Networks
344(4)
Capsule Summary: Chapter 7
348(1)
Further Reading
349(4)
Outdoor Networks
353(34)
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom of Night
353(1)
Line-of-Sight Sites
354(3)
Outdoor Coverage Networks
357(15)
Point-to-Multipoint Networks
372(3)
Point-to-Point Bridges
375(1)
Long Unlicensed Links
376(6)
Safety Tips
382(2)
Capsule Summary: Chapter 8
384(1)
Further Reading
385(2)
Afterword
387(2)
Appendix 1: Regulatory Issues
389(16)
1. A Piece of History
389(1)
2. FCC Part 15
390(7)
3. European Standards
397(3)
4. Japan
400(1)
5. China
401(2)
6. Concluding Remarks
403(1)
7. Further Reading
404(1)
Appendix 2: Measurement Tools
405(6)
1. The RF Toolbox
405(6)
Appendix 3: Reflection and Matching
411(6)
1. Reflection Coefficients
411(2)
2. A Simple Matching Example
413(3)
3. Further Reading?
416(1)
Appendix 4: The Lorentz Gauge
417(4)
1. No Royal Road
417(1)
2. Lorentz Gauge Derivation
417(2)
3. Coupling of the Potentials
419(2)
Appendix 5: Power Density
421(4)
1. Rederiving P
421(4)
Appendix 6: Conventional E & M
425(2)
1. Speaking Their Language
425(2)
Appendix 7: Table of Symbols Used in the Text
427(2)
Index 429

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