Wireless System Engineering addresses the complicated engineering issues with building wireless communications networks and components.

Upon completion of this book, you should have a good understanding of:

• How wireless communication works.
• The physics behind wireless communications.
• What components make up a wireless network.
• The Transmission Control Protocol/IP (TCP/IP) and how it relates to the conventions of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model.
• The various wireless technologies available today.
• The methodologies used to design and implement a wireless network.
• Designcutting-edge filters, amplifiers, RF switches, oscillators, and more
• Calculations for impedance matching, analysis of wireless links, and completing a frequency plan
• Link budget calculations
• RF and Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Communications

System Engineering Overview

• Extracting and organizing requirements
• Defining project boundaries 
• Establishing the system-level functional and physical contexts
• Introduction to behavior modeling
• Deriving the detailed system functionality 
• Allocating functional behavior to the physical architecture
• Interfaces and physical links
• Test planning and requirements verification

System maintainability and maintenance System supportability and logistics

• Introduction
• Measure of Information
• Sampling Theorem
• Quantization
• Source coding Sec
• Modulation
• Signal reception in noise
• Wireless system hardware and circuit design

Analysis

• BER analysis
• Link budget analysis
• Spectra of digitally modulated signals
• Channel Capacity and Coding
• Channel COding
• Packet communications, DLC Error checking using CRC
• ARQ techniques
• Quality and control
• Access
• Multiple access:TDMA, FDMA CDMA, WCMDA
• Intro to queueing
• Intro to queueing
• Packet Multiple access:Aloha/CSMA
• Local area networks
• Packet Routing

Theorems and Signals

• Communication Systems Overview
• Fourier Analysis
• Sampling Theorem
• FFT
• Linear Response
• Basic Filters
• Non-linear Distortion
• Energy Signals
• Power Signals
• Periodic Signal Spectrum
• Noise
• Baseband Signalling and PCM
• Quantization
• Coding
• DPCM and Delta Modulation
• TDM
• Intersymbol Interference
• AM
• FDM
• FM
• Digital Modulation
• Other Methods

Advanced Topics

• Modulation.
• Amplifier Design
• Oscillator Design
• Frequency Synthesizer Design
• Filter Design
• Mixer Design
• Support Circuit Design
• Communication Systems Design
• Wireless Issues
• Wireless Systems and Standards 
• Interference calculations
• Capacity enhancement techniques
• Performance measures
• Channel assignments/hand-offs.
• Radio Channel: review of channel characteristics

Multipath and fading

• Fading counter-measures (diversity and coding).
• Random Access Protocols.

Advanced Concepts in Wireless Systems Engineering: Wideband-CDMA and OFDM principles

• Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA)
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications Services (UMTS)
• Frequency Division Duplex (FDD)
• Time Division Duplex (TDD)
• Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA)
• Fixed Wireless Technologies
• 802.11 wireless LAN architecture
• Antenna placement and RF utilization
• LMDS/MMDS
• Mobile Wireless Technologies
• Wireless LANs and PANs
• Optical Wireless Technologies
• Bluetooth
• Wireless LAN
• Infiniband
• Cellular Mobile Radio
• Cellular Radio
• Radio Propagation
• Impairments
• Bandwidth
• Advanced Network Access
• Frequency Reuse
• Mobile Satellite
• 2G Cellular Design
• 2.5 G Cellular Design
• 3G Cellular Design
• 4G Cellular Design

RF and Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Communications 

• Mixer circuits
• quency synthesizers
• Amplifier design
• Noise
• Design applications for digital cellular telephony, wireless LANs, PCS, GaAs and high-speed silicon bipolar IC technology, and low-power RF circuit technology