Good reference book. It provids concepts and material important for graduate studies and industry. I recommand it.

Good reference book. It provids concepts and material important for graduate studies and industry. I recommand it.

This has many typos, which can be frustrating in following the context. And I found out that the typos are different to other 2nd editions. Little bit disappointing.

I recommend this book for anyone pursuing a Certification like CWNA, CWNP or other wireless certifications. The technical concepts which are at the core of design, implementation, research, and invention of wireless communication systems are presented in an order that is conducive to understanding the general concepts, as well as those specific to current and evolving wireless communication systems and standards.
The Author has done a great job of explaining Radio wave propagation which has historically been the most difficult problem to analyze and design for, since unlike a wired communication system which has a constant, stationary transmission channel (i.e., a wired path), radio channels are random and undergo shadowing and multipath fading, particularly when one of the terminals is in motion. I particularly liked the chapter on modeling spatial-temporal channels, which is vital for the development of smart antennas and position location systems.
The appendices contain hundreds of mathematical formulas and identities for general engineering work.
The compilation of the major wireless standards makes this book particularly useful as a single source of information for a wide range of wireless systems that are commercially deployed today.
I gave this book 4 stars as I feel that the problems included in the book should have the answers as well.
Niloufer Tamboly, CISSP

I recommend this book for anyone pursuing a Certification like CWNA, CWNP or other wireless certifications. The technical concepts which are at the core of design, implementation, research, and invention of wireless communication systems are presented in an order that is conducive to understanding the general concepts, as well as those specific to current and evolving wireless communication systems and standards.
The Author has done a great job of explaining Radio wave propagation which has historically been the most difficult problem to analyze and design for, since unlike a wired communication system which has a constant, stationary transmission channel (i.e., a wired path), radio channels are random and undergo shadowing and multipath fading, particularly when one of the terminals is in motion. I particularly liked the chapter on modeling spatial-temporal channels, which is vital for the development of smart antennas and position location systems.
The appendices contain hundreds of mathematical formulas and identities for general engineering work.
The compilation of the major wireless standards makes this book particularly useful as a single source of information for a wide range of wireless systems that are commercially deployed today.
I gave this book 4 stars as I feel that the problems included in the book should have the answers as well.
Niloufer Tamboly, CISSP

This is one of the best book for this field!

This is one of the best book for this field!

this book is not good for the beginner in wireless communication. I have to use this textbook, because it's the requirement form my instructor.

the author didn't organize this book as well as he should. All equations are not well explained...Sometime the students need to guess where this variable stands for or what parameter's meaning is. He wrote like the literature or drama.....no space for equation's explanation...all of them are in the same paragrah.

i really don't recommend this textbook and i still don't understand why my instructor uses this text

If I had not seen the Gorden Stuber book I would have given this book only 1 star. However in comparison, it does deserve at least 2.

This book has all the stuff you would want in a wireless text book. It covers fading, Rayleigh, Rician, GSM, AMPS etc. My major complaint with the book is THERE ARE NO EXAMPLES. Per chapter there are probably 3 or 4 examples, but none of them are really challenging.

For instance in the fading chapter, the examples are on coherence time only. How about a couple examples that actually use the fading PDF's/CDF's. We spend so much time "discussing" the distributions, maybe it is time we actually use the distributions?

Compared to "Principles of Mobile Communication" the book is marginally better. For one it is not as heavy on the math, and it does a better job explaining pretty well everything.

However.. I feel I learned far more from Shankar's wireless book in undergrad.

This text is by far the most comprehensive and useful for explaining all facets of wireless communications. I had this text for an entry graduate class, and found the examples, writing style, and organization to be first rate. The description of 3G systems and WLANs in Chapter 2 was very useful and helped when I later had to read the standards for employment. This text will continue to get good use on my bookshelf. It also has a very thorough index and appendices with many tables, formulas, explanations, and useful engineering matter that I seldom have ever found under one cover before.
Great for students and practicing wireless engineers

I am a university student and recently took a course in which the required readings were taken from this text. I, along with many of my peers, found this book to be very useful, as well as well organized and easy to follow. It presented many key ideas clearly and was an excellent introduction to the topic of wireless communications. While some of the details may have been missing, the general overview provided was ideal for a first course in this area as it is difficult to touch on many of the details while still giving a solid introduction in a single term.
It was definitely one of my favourite text books during my 4-year undergraduate program.

As a lecturer in Mobile Telecommunications I was concerned that this book is light on detail in some places, and authoritatively wrong in others. For example, the author makes basic errors in his description of the GSM logical architecture (particularly with respect to the network databases) and he does not describe the current HR and EFR GSM voice codecs; the section on IS-95 CDMA does not describe soft handoff or cell identification in detail and has not been updated to describe IS-95A. His derivation of Erlang B is also missing a number of key steps. These factors make this textbook unrecommendable for my students. A THOROUGH revision is in order for the next edition.

I took a course in wireless communication and this book was asigned to us. The book is very good but I think it is not the best. It is not deep math. As a graduate student I think the book of Stuber "Principles of Mobile Communication" is better.

A must-have for a beginner in the field of Wireless Communications. The author covers a wide range of topics starting from basic Cellular System engineering to topics like mobile channel characterization, fading and diversity, channel coding, modulation etc.. The book also provides a very good introduction to First and Second generation Mobile communication standards. The authors style is very good and easy to understand. A lot of unnecessary math is avoided and very good overview is presented.

But the thing I liked the most in this book is the exercise problems at the end of each chapter and the references. Working out the problems in the end will help a lot in gaining a deeper insight into the concepts explained in the book.

Overall.. this book certainly deserves 5 *'s !

The first 440 pages are concerned with the theory behind radio transmission, radio link calculation, propagation models, modulation techniques and Multiple Access Technologies (FDMA, TDMA, FHMA, CDMA, etc.) . Although all this theory is explained in many books, this book could be a convenient source for most you have to know about radio (layer-1). However, this book is very poor regarding the mobile standards (just one chapter), that was the info I was looking for. For understanding the upper layers in the mobile architectures, look for a more recent book, specific to your technology (GSM, D-AMPS, IS-95, etc)

The book is absolutely terrible...for one thing there is TOO MUCH unnecessary math and the problems at the end of the chapter were too challenging compared to the example problems within the chapter(and to make it worse there are no answers..so how can you actually learn!!). The material is presented in pieces which made learning extremely difficult...definitely one of the worst text books I've ever had and I don't recommend it to anyone. It should never be used for an undergraduate class again!!!

I think this is a good book for introduction of wireless communications.But it didn't talk about propagation deeply. If somebody is interested in wireless propagation for indoor and outdoor channels, I will recommend the book by Henry L. Bertoni--radio propagation for modern wireless systems. Enjoy it.

For the most part, this book is nothing short of outstanding. It EXPLAINS key concepts and writes mathematical formulas only when necessary. For understanding the indoor and outdoor channel, this book is top notch. HOWEVER, in certain areas such as diversity and especially coding I found this book lacking. Having taken an Algebraic Coding course before I found the author wasted paper since nothing in this section was explained properly and I feel anyone who hasn't had any exposure or secondary reference will get anything out of it. Hopefully another edition of this book is made where lacking areas are explained better or cut entirely.

I would recommend this book to anyone who needs a good introductory book on wireless communications. The book clearly explains all the important concepts of wireless communications without all the annoying math that accompanies most electrical engineering textbooks.

This book was the recommended book for a course I just took and I found it much better than the required text. Good discussion of fading channels, overview of the major wireless protocols that were in use at the time the book was written, and well thought out and well written overviews of the prerequisite material from general communication theory.

I read this book for my mobile engineering course for graduate course...it is very informative.

the manner that the author conduct the book is apropriate for a student in graduation. There are many problems solved into this book that can lead you to grasp some real situations.

In my opinion, THE book for introductory coursework in wireless (non-satellite) communications systems. Though the author claims the material can be covered in a single semester, I think it is better to plan a two-semester sequence at either the advanced undergraduate or early graduate levels. A background in calculus, probability theory, and communications signal analysis is necessary.

As a highly informative book relating to all aspects of wireless communications it is an invaluable reference for telecommunications and electrical engineering majors. I recommend a prerequisite in basic communications and a strong mathematical understanding of calculus II and differential equations. The book covers all aspects of wireless communications including IR, Microwave, Satellite, Fiber, Cellular, PMC, wireless networks, propagation models, and Spread Spectrum CDMA. Engineers and technologists that are interested in the field of telecommunications will gain a competitive edge though the information contained in this book