E-grāmata: Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication

This book explains how a common multi-carrier platform is being designed for DS-CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, and MC-CDMA systems. Findings are presented which show how this multi-carrier platform enhances network capacity and probability of error performance. After a brief introduction to the wireless world, chapters overview existing multi-carrier technologies and detail how the proposed technology will enhance them. Each chapter provides necessary background and describes the underlying signaling scheme, the transmitter and receiver models, and key performance results. A final chapter introduces a novel way to implement an antenna array system alongside multi-carrier systems. Nassar founded the laboratory for Research in Advanced Wireless Communications at Colorado State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Multi-carrier technologies have emerged as important instruments in telecommunications. OFDM is in the forefront, with its adoption by the IEEE 802.11 standards committee and the European HYPERLAN standards group. Following OFDM, MC-CDMA is also demonstrating considerable promise when compared to competing technologies. According to the authors, these technologies are just the beginning in the coming multi-carrier revolution. In Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication, the authors explain how a common multi-carrier platform is being designed for DS-CDMA, TDMA, OFDM and MC-CDMA systems. Findings are presented which show how this multi-carrier platform enhances network capacity and probability of error performance.Specific results include (1) innovation in multi-carrier technologies that are enabling them to become an integral part of TDMA and DS-CDMA systems; and (2) the design of multi-carrier systems to overcome PAPR problems (in, e.g., OFDM). Multi-Carrier Technologies for Wireless Communication is an important book for engineers who work with DS-CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, or MC-CDMA systems, and are seeking new ways of exploiting the wireless medium based on a "smarter" signal processing.