Wireless Communications Systems

A comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of design and applications of wireless communications

Wireless Communications Systems starts by explaining the fundamentals needed to understand, design, and deploy wireless communications systems. The author, a noted expert on the topic, explores the basic concepts of signals, modulation, antennas, and propagation with a MATLAB emphasis. The book emphasizes practical applications and concepts needed by wireless engineers.

The author introduces applications of wireless communications and includes information on satellite communications, radio frequency identification, and offers an overview with practical insights into the topic of multiple input multiple output (MIMO). The book also explains the security and health effects of wireless systems concerns on users and designers. Designed as a practical resource, the text contains a range of examples and pictures that illustrate many different aspects of wireless technology. The book relies on MATLAB for most of the computations and graphics. This important text: 

• Reviews the basic information needed to understand and design wireless communications systems
• Covers topics such as MIMO systems, adaptive antennas, direction finding, wireless security, internet of things (IoT), radio frequency identification (RFID), and software defined radio (SDR)
• Provides examples with a MATLAB emphasis to aid comprehension
• Includes an online solutions manual and video lectures on selected topics

Written for students of engineering and physics and practicing engineers and scientists, Wireless Communications Systems covers the fundamentals of wireless engineering in a clear and concise manner and contains many illustrative examples.

RANDY L. HAUPT, PHD, is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and consults for industry and government. He retired from the USAF as a LtCol and was an RF staff consultant at Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Corp.