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RF and Wireless Technologies

Know It All

Bruce A. Fette, Praphul Chandra, and Alan Bensky

The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf

RF (radio frequency) and wireless technologies drive communication today. This technology and its applications enable wireless phones, portable device roaming, and short-range industrial and commercial application communication such as the supply chain management wonder, RFID. Up-to-date information regarding software defined RF, using frequencies smarter, and, using more of the spectrum, with ultrawideband technology is detailed.

Chapter 1: Survey of RF and Wireless Technology

Chapter 2: Communications Protocols and Modulation

Chapter 3: Transmitters

Chapter 4: Receivers

Chapter 5: Radio Propagation

Chapter 6: Antenna Fundamentals I

Chapter 7: Antenna Fundamentals II.

Chapter 8: Basics of Wireless Local Area Networks

Chapter 9: Outdoor Networks.

Chapter 10: Voice Over Wi-Fi and Other Wireless Technologies

Chapter 11: Security in Wireless Local Area Networks

Chapter 12: System Planning

Chapter 13: System Implementation, Testing, and Optimization

Chapter 14: Next Generation Wireless Networks

Chapter 15: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Chapter 16: Wireless Sensor Networks

Chapter 17: Reliable Wireless Networks for Industrial Networks

Chapter 18: Software-Defined Radio

Chapter 19: The Basics of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology

Chapter 20: UWB Spectrum and Regulation

Chapter 21: Interference and Coexistence

Chapter 22: Direct Sequence UWB

Chapter 23: Multiband Approach to UWB

Chapter 24: History and Background of Cognitive Radio

Chapter 25: The Software Defined Radio as a Platform for Cognitive Radio

Chapter 26: Cognitive Radio: The Technologies

Chapter 27: Spectrum Awareness

Chapter 28: Direct Sequence and Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

Chapter 29: RF Power Amplifiers

Chapter 30: Phase Locked Loop Techniques in Modern Communications Systems

Chapter 31 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)

*A 360 degree view from best-selling authors including Roberto Aiello, Bruce Fette, and Praphul Chandra

*Hot topics covered including ultrawideband and cognitive radio technologies

*The ultimate hard-working desk reference: all the essential information, techniques, and tricks of the trade in one volume

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