Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice

by Theodore S. Rappaport

This book contains information that helps you understand the telecom industry better. Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice by Theodore Rappaport is a comprehensive study of the most important standards associated with cellular, cordless telephone and personal communication systems. The book expands on the functionality of these products and briefs readers regarding AMPS, U.S. Digital Cellular, CT-2, GSM, CDMA, DECT, WACS, ETACS, PDC and CDPD.
The processes involved in the working of these items have been clearly defined by way of numerous diagrams, data tables and figures in the book. These help in a more practical approach to the concepts, along with the theoretical aspects.
Introduction to topics such as mobile radio communication system, the cellular concept, radio wave propagation, equalization, diversity and channel coding provide the reader with a fair understanding of the wireless networks in place. The appendices at the end explain several things as well like the Trunking Theory and Gaussian Approximation, also listing down acronyms and abbreviations along with mathematical tables, functions and transforms.

Genres: Textbooks, Engineering, Computer Science

736 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 1995

Reviews

[Mahi Abdelbar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice book for beginners in Wireless Communications. Simple explanations, and easy Mathematics & Statistics :))

[Huma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part of my CS-II course.

[Ahmed Atif Abrar · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have read the South Asian edition. Explanation on multiple access technologies could come before chapters on cellular network. That is why it remained highly unclear what the first part of the course was trying to deliver.
Moreover, confronted with many an unacceptable and callous error which I did not see in its international version. The congested citation style e.g. [Cou93] is much unreadable. I don't know who proposed this style. It has largely been an obsolete practice in electrical and electronics engineering literature very logically.

[Ram Shyam · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Ashok Shankhwar · Rating 4 out of 5]

good book

[Tesfaye Zenebe]

CDMA

[Brain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review of the first edition. This book is a standard in the field. While the first edition is pretty 'old', it is every bit as applicable today. While I'm sure newer editions closes any gap and fixing minor editing errors, it still contains a complete collection of foundation principles needed to understand these complex systems. It covers nearly all of the processes in good detail for a 2000 or 3000 or level communication engineering undergraduate course. For example, the handoff is covered in several paragraphs introducing what the process is, how it fits into the larger architecture, but doesn't explain exactly how it happens at the architecture level. That is not a fault, though, just an example as to the scope of the book. In some ways, this actually details GSM processes, CDMA, or radio wave propagation better than many books specifically written for specific topics.

I tend to rate 3 to 5 stars as I don’t bother with books that aren’t acceptable to the subject. 3 stars means it is a good book, but there are better treatments of the subject matter or contains structural problems in the text. 4 stars means the book is great and I use it regularly in projects/research. 5 stars is reserved for top 10-20% on a given shelf that abstracted a particularly difficult idea in an easy to understand manner (i.e. it blew my mind) or I have a hard time completing my work without it.

[kunKUN herHER · Rating 4 out of 5]

My mate...

[Gerson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned about mobile telecommunications... I'm studing it for acomplish the master degree.

[Nivas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Textbook used for the Wireless Communications course. Great book, describes CDMA, GSM, etc.

[Anees Ahmed · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you want to build your basics in the field of telecommunication, this book will be the best choice.

[Hati]

i need this book because it important for my studies specially at this period .

[Zahidbilal]

its amazing book