Description
Book SynopsisThoroughly revised and updated, this second edition offers a fundamental and comprehensive treatment of how mobile systems operate in a variety of scenarios. This unrivalled approach concentrates on the properties of the radio channel, a vital and central feature that places fundamental limitations on the performance of radio systems.
Bringing the reader completely up-to-date, this book:
* Features two new chapters: ''Multipath Mitigation Techniques'' and ''Radio System Planning''
* Surveys various alternative methods of predicting the mean signal strength and its variability, and discusses their applications
* Introduces ray-tracing methods in connection with indoor propagation
* Discusses multipath and its effects on narrowband and wideband systems
* Describes channel sounders and reviews methods of hardware and software simulation
* Examines man-made noise and interference and discusses the resulting performance degradation
By equipping the reader wit
Trade Review"In a textbook for a graduate course and reference for systems designers and researchers, Parsons...synthesizes from technical papers basic information about the mobile radio channel itself..." (SciTech Book News Vol. 25, No. 2 June 2001)
Table of ContentsPreface.
Preface to the First Edition.
Introduction.
Fundamentals of VHF and UHF Propagation.
Propagation over Irregular Terrain.
Propagation in Built-up Areas.
Characterisation of Multipath Phenomena.
Wideband Channel Characterisation.
Other Mobile Radio Channels.
Sounding, Sampling anf Simulation.
Man-made Noise and Interference.
Mitigation of Multipath Effects.
Planning Radio Networks.
Appendix A: Rayleigh Graph Paper and Receiver Noise Figure.
Appendix B: Rayleigh Distribution (dB) and CNR in a Rayleigh Fading Environment.
Appendix C: Deriving PDFs for Variables in Logarithmic Units.
Appendix D: Effective Signal Envelope.
Index.
