Principles of wireless access and localization

A comprehensive, encompassing and accessible text examining a wide range of key Wireless Networking and Localization technologies This book provides a unified treatment of issues related to all wireless access and wireless localization techniques. The book reflects principles of design and deployment of infrastructure for wireless access and localization for wide, local, and personal networking. Description of wireless access methods includes design and deployment of traditional TDMA and CDMA technologies and emerging Long Term Evolution (LTE) techniques for wide area cellul.

PRINCIPLES OF WIRELESS ACCESS AND LOCALIZATION; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Elements of Information Networks; 1.2.1 Evolution of Applications, Devices, and Networks; 1.2.2 Information Network Infrastructures and Wireless Access; 1.2.3 Connection Between Wireless Access and Localization; 1.2.4 Standards Organizations for Information Networking; 1.2.5 Four Markets in the Evolution of Wireless Networking Standards; 1.2.6 Trends in Wireless Data Applications; 1.3 Evolution of Wireless Access to the PSTN; 1.3.1 Cordless Telephone Systems.

1.3.2 Cellular Telephone Networks1.4 Evolution of Wireless Access to the Internet; 1.4.1 Local Wireless Data Networks; 1.4.2 Wide Area Wireless Data Networks; 1.5 Evolution of Wireless Localization Technologies; 1.5.1 TOA-based Wireless Localization; 1.5.2 RSS-based Localization; 1.6 Structure of this Book; 1.6.1 Part I: Principles of Air-Interference Design; 1.6.2 Part II: Principle of Network Infrastructure Design; 1.6.3 Part III: Wireless Local Access; 1.6.4 Part IV: Wide Area Wireless Access; 1.6.5 Part V: Wireless Localization; Part I PRINCIPLES OF AIR-INTERFERENCE DESIGN.

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