Wireless Information Networks
Author: Allen H Levesqu
Towards location aware mobile ad hoc sensors
A Systems Engineering Approach to Wireless Information Networks
The Second Edition of this internationally respected textbook brings readers fully up to date with the myriad of developments in wireless communications. When first published in 1995, wireless communications was synonymous with cellular telephones. Now wireless information networks are the most important technology in all branches of telecommunications. Readers can learn about the latest applications in such areas as ad hoc sensor networks, home networking, and wireless positioning.
Wireless Information Networks takes a systems engineering approach: technical topics are presented in the context of how they fit into the ongoing development of new systems and services, as well as the recent developments in national and international spectrum allocations and standards. The authors have organized the myriad of current and emerging wireless technologies into logical categories:
* Introduction to Wireless Networks presents an up-to-the-moment discussion of the evolution of the cellular industry from analog cellular technology to 2G, 3G, and 4G, as well as the emergence of WLAN and WPAN as broadband ad hoc networks
* Characteristics of Radio Propagation includes new coverage of channel modeling for space-time, MIMO, and UWB communications and wireless geolocation networks
* Modem Design offers new descriptions of space-time coding, MIMO antenna systems, UWB communications, and multi-user detection and interference cancellation techniques used in CDMA networks
* Network Access and System Aspects incorporates new chapters on UWB systems and RFgeolocations, with a thorough revision of wireless access techniques and wireless systems and standards
Exercises that focus on real-world problems are provided at the end of each chapter. The mix of assignments, which includes computer projects and questionnaires in addition to traditional problem sets, helps readers focus on key issues and develop the skills they need to solve actual engineering problems. A separate Instructor's Manual is available that includes a solution book and supporting material for preparing class presentations. Extensive references are provided for those readers who would like to explore particular topics in greater depth.
With its emphasis on knowledge-building to solve problems, this is an excellent graduate-level textbook. Like the previous edition, this latest edition will also be a standard reference for the telecommunications industry.
An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.
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Warning that today's mobile and portable telephones and wireless data services are just the beginning of a new surge of wireless communication, provides a technical introduction for practicing engineers, scientists, managers, and students. Describes such factors as the characteristics of radio propagation, the analysis of various transmission techniques, network access and architecture, and overviews of the status and potential of cordless and cellular telephones, personal communication services, mobile data networks, wireless local area networks, and indoor wireless communication. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Transforming the Dream: Ecologism and the Shaping of an Alternative American Vision
Author: Charles Bednar
Transforming the Dream challenges American mainstream culture's obsession with unlimited economic and industrial growth. Drawing on works by Roy Morrison, Murray Bookchin, Daniel C. Maguire, Paul Taylor, C. A. Bowers, and others, Bednar critiques the ideological status quo, offering an alternative ecological economics, political economy, ethics, and pedagogy. This new outlook on humankind's relationship to the environment is, he argues, better positioned to address critical issues of the twenty-first century, including the ecological and social limits of economic growth, the social and economic requisites for authentic democracy, the ethics of human interaction with the natural environment, and the educational curricula and practices required to promote ecological literacy. Bednar's perspective provides the opportunity to develop economic and political institutions that permit a sustainable relationship with the environment and offers a socially richer and more fulfilling life for the individual than the "American Dream" promised by the current system.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Ecological Economics | 17 |
| 2 | Ecological Political Economy | 51 |
| 3 | Ecological Ethics | 89 |
| 4 | Ecological Pedagogy | 129 |
| 5 | Conclusion | 167 |
| Notes | 183 | |
| Bibliography | 209 | |
| Index | 215 |
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