Traditional modulation methods adopted by space agencies for transmit-
ting telecommand and telemetry data have incorporated subcarriers as a sim-
ple means of separating different data types as well ensuring no overlap
between the radio frequency (RF) carrier and the modulated data’s frequency
spe ...
At present, there is a strong worldwide push toward bringing fiber closer to indi-
vidual homes and businesses. Fiber-to-the-Home/Business (FTTH/B) or close to it
networks are poised to become the next major success story for optical fiber com-
munications. In fact, FTTH connections are currently ex ...
This chapter introduces concepts on cooperating objects and wireless sensor net-
works that will be used in the following chapters. It also introduces the Embedded
WiSeNts Coordination Action. Finally, it presents an overview of the book and the
relations between the following chapters.
While teaching classes on digital transmission and mobile communications for
undergraduate and graduate students, I was wondering if it would be possible to
write a book capable of giving them some insight about the practical meaning of the
concepts, beyond the mathematics; the same insight that exp ...
The General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) allows an end user to send and
receive data in packet transfer mode within a public land mobile network
(PLMN) without using a permanent connection between the mobile station
(MS) and the external network during data transfer. This way, GPRS opti-
mizes the us ...
When joining Siemens in 2001, I also extended my research interest towards radio net-
work planning methodologies. This area of research brought together my personal interest
in mobile communications and in the design of efficient algorithms and data structures.
Between 2001 and 2003, I participated ...
This book is intended for the RF planners, to serve as a practical tool in their daily work
designing indoor radio distribution systems. It is not a complete book about all the deep
aspects and corners of GSM, DCS, UMTS and HSPA networks, or all the core network
systems. It is dedicated to the last ...
This research work aims at eliminating the off-chip RF SAW filters from fre-
quency division duplexed (FDD) receivers. In the first approach, a monolithic passive
RF filter was constructed using on-chip capacitors and bondwire inductors. The bond-
wire characteristics were studied in details and the ...
In order to improve the spectral efficiency in wireless communications, multiple
antennas are employed at both transmitter and receiver sides, where the resulting
system is referred to as the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In
MIMO systems, it is usually requiredto detect signals joint ...
Nature is seldom kind. One of the most appealing uses for radio-
telephone systems—communication with people on the move—must over-
come radio transmission problems so difficult they challenge the imagina-
tion. A microwave radio signal transmitted between a fixed base station
and a moving vehicle ...
