Broadband Wireless Communications: Transmission, Access and Services

ISBN-13: 9783540762379 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 432 str.

Marco Luise; Silvano Pupolin; M. Louise

Opis

An overview of the state of the art and future developments within broadband wireless access. The wide focus covers technological, architectural and regulatory issues and emphasis is placed on digital signal processing techniques and microwave monolithic integrated circuits.

Spis treści

1 Digital Signal Processing for Broadband Radio Transmissions.- Signal Processing for Network Access Technologies: An Overview.- An Overview of MMDS and LMDS, and the Technical Challenges in Receiver Design.- Overview of Wideband CDMA.- Feedforward Estimation Techniques for Carrier Recovery in 16-QAM Modulation.- On the Joint Adaptation of Memory-Based Nonlinear Adaptive Filters Used in Echo Cancellation.- The Contour Algorithm for Self-Training Adaptive Equalization.- Interference Rejection for Spread-Spectrum Signals Using the EM Algorithm.- Adaptive Multi-Carrier CDMA (MC-CDMA) Structure for Downlink PCS.- Combined Source-Channel Coding for Wireless Transmission of H.263 Coded Video.- Precoding in the Digital Wireless Local Loop.- Iterated Soft-Decision Interference Cancellation for CDMA.- Nonlinear Distortions Introduced by Amplifiers on COFDM Signals. Measurements, Effects, and Compensation Techniques.- 2 MMIC and Antenna Technology for Broadband Communications.- A Survey on MMIC and Antenna Technology.- Antennas for Broadband Microwave/mm-Wave Communication Systems.- Broadband Wireless Access System Antennas: Concepts and Design.- MMIC Technology for Broadband Wireless Access.- MMIC Technology in Japan for the Last Mile.- 3 Wireless Media Access Techniques.- QoS Support in Mobile, Multimedia Networks.- Media Access Protocols for Use With Smart Array Antennas to Enable Wireless Multimedia Applications.- QoS Based Predictive Admission Control for Multi-Media Traffic.- The Design and Performance of Wireless MAC Protocols.- The Throughput of Packet Access Cellular Systems Based on DECT Architecture.- A Combined Frequency and Time Based Channel Reuse Partitioning Multiple Access Technique for Indoor Wireless ATM Networks.- A Variable-Order Discrete Model for the Fading Channel.- Dynamic TDMA scheme with Traffic Policing for ATM Wireless LAN.- MAC and Interworking in the MEDIAN Project on Wireless ATM.- An Accurate Markovian Model of Cluster Traffic in a Wireless ATM Environment.- Capacity of Broadband CDMA in the Millimeter-Wave Band.- Analysis of the Self-Similar Characteristics of Broadband Traffic in the Wavelet Domain.- 4 Broadband Multimedia Terminals, Systems, and Services.- Multimedia Terminals.- Advanced 40 GHz MMDS Technologies.- Multiple Standards for Multimedia.- New Developments in Terminal Technology: Personal Perspective to Trends in R&D.- Overview of the RAI Pilot MMDS Installation in Torino.- 42 GHz Broadband Wireless Systems to Access Interactive Services.- Last Mile Wireless Broadband Access to Interactive Services at Millimeter Waves.- LMDS, A Broadband Wireless Interactive Access System at 28 GHz.- Layered Description and Implementation of CDMA Protocols.- The European System for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting.- Radio Access to Multimedia Services: the Standardization Process.- A Global Network Management System for Multimedia Services (Terrestrial-Satellite Integrated Network).- Authors’ Index.