Chapter 1: Introduction
1. The Beauty of-Wires, the Inevitability of-Wireless
2. What You Need to Proceed
3. An Overview of What Is to Come
4. Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Chapter 2: Basics of Wireless Communications
1. Harmonic Signals and Exponentials
2. Electromagnetic Waves and Multiplexing
3. Modulation and Bandwidth
4. Wireless Link Overview: Systems, Power, Noise, and Link Budgets
5. Capsule Summary: Chapter 2
Further Reading
Chapter 3: Basics of Wireless Locl Area Networks
1. Networks Large and Small
2. WLANs From LANs
3. 802.11 WLANs
4. HiperLAN and HiperLAN 2
5. From LANs to PANs
6. Capsule Summary: Chapter 3
7. Further Reading
Chapter 4: Radio Transmitters and Receivers
1. Overview of Radios
2. Radio Components
3. Radio System Design
4. Examples of Radio Chips and Chipsets
5. Capsule Summary: Chapter 4
6. Further Reading
Chapter 5: Antennas
1. Not Your Father's E & M
2. Radiation: The Wireless Wire
3. The Ideal Dipole
4. Antenna Radiation Patterns
5. Antennas as Receivers
6. Survey of Common Antennas
7. Cables and Connectors
8. Capsule Summary: Chapter 5
Further Reading
Chapter 6: Propagation
1. Propagation in Free Space
2. Propagation in Earthbound Environments
3. Multipath Propagation: Fading and Delay
4. Statistical Modeling of Propagation
5. Capsule Summary: Chapter 6
6. Further Reading
Chapter 7: Indoor Networks
1. Behind Closed Doors
2. How Buildings Are Built (with W. Charles Perry, P.E.)
3. Microwave Properties of Building Materials
4. Realistic Metal Obstacles
5. Real Indoor Propagation
6. How Much Is Enough?
7. Indoor Interferers
8. Tools for Indoor Networks
9. Capsule Summary: Chapter 7
10. Further Reading
Chapter 8: Outdoor Networks
1. Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom of Night
2. Line-of-Sight Sites
3. Outdoor Coverage Networks
4. Point-to-Multipoint Networks
5. Point-to-Point Bridges
6. Long Unlicensed Links
7. Safety Tips
8. Capsule Summary: Chapter 8
9. Further Reading
Afterword
Appendix 1: Regulatory Issues
1. A Piece of History
2. FCC Part 15
3. European Standards
4. Japan
5. China
6. Concluding Remarks
7. Further Reading
Appendix 2:Measurement Tools
1. The RF Toolbox
Appendix 3:Reflection and Matching
1. Reflection Coefficients
2. A Simple Matching Example
3. Further Reading?
Appendix 4" The korentz Gauge
1.No Royal Road
2.Lorentz Gauge Derivation
3.Coupling of the Potentials
Appendix 5:Power Density
1.Rederiving P
Appendix 6:Conventional E (&) M
1.Speaking Their Language
Appendix 7:Table of Symbols Used in the Text
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