Fundamentals of Wireless Communication

This actually is the only book that presents a treatment of wireless communincations in throughly rigorous way, and yet does not loose touch with practice. The usual books in digital communication, especially the industry standard Salehi, have mostly been outdated by this book. I have done coursework with Viswanath, and was one of the students on which the initial drafts of this books was "tried and tested." Viswanath has few equals in his research area (which itself he keeps expanding), and consistently amazes everyone with how closely he is in touch with what the industry is doing. This is reflected throughout the book. The book can be reqd with the standard prereqs - a good understanding of undergraduate to first year graduate probability is required understand anything in communications theory, so that goes without saying. Some parts of the book will carry more juice for people who have a good knowledge of information theory, but Tse & Viswanath include a beautifully written appendix for people without this knowledge. The appendix is worth reading by itself, even for people who have taken courses in information theory before! The chapter that compares various wireless systems alone is worth the price of the book. As another reviewer pointed out, the exercises are not all simple. These were given in a homework setting, and there were TA's to assist people with the problems. They may be a little hard to solve alone.

Good companion to older standard books like Proakis and Sklar. Covers a lot of modern topics older books lack or topics typically requiring you to seek out obscure and dense reference books. Covers impressive breadth and depth of subjects, for example MIMO. Writing is clear and easy to follow. Recommended for both academic use and the working comms engineer. Also huge kudos to Cambridge University Press who seem to be able to publish excellent hardcover textbooks that are affordable and aren't approaching 300 dollars a pop.

I bought it at the price of used book (around half price of new one). There is just a remainder mark on the side. Except for that, it is like a new book. This book itself is a classical textbook for graduate students who work in the area of wireless communication. It may not cover all details of every technologies, but it does provide a clear picture and more importantly, it unifies many different technologies in one framework. So you can have a deeper understanding and appreciate more.

Chapters 7, 8 and v good. Appendix also useful. Easy readability. How each topic changes from AWGN to fading channels is well explained.

Compares well with the classics: 1) Gallagher 2) Wozencraft & Jacobs 3) O & S (Signal processing) This is how text books ought to be written. Also, David Tse was key in developing the multiuser diversity concepts at QCOM. Hence - the book also has good engineering isights.

Good quality of the product-completely satisfied

Print quality is very bad! I had this book before and printing was very different. This one seems thicker and larger, paper feels cheap.

Good

Estoy realizando el doctorado en Telecomunicaciones con investigaciones en el ámbito de comunicaciones inalámbricas (estimación de canal, MIMO-OFDM, etc.). No encontraba ningún libro que me resolviera dudas "básicas" dando un tratamiento suficientemente formal. Este libro saca todas las ecuaciones desde cero, partiendo de modelos simplificados de cómo rebotan las ondas, etc. Con simplificaciones fáciles de seguir, te ayudan a entender los fundamentos físico-matemáticos de las comunicaciones inalámbricas. Es un libro imprescindible si vas a investigar algo sobre el tema o te vas a dedicar profesionalmente a ello. Además, está muy bien explicado y lleno de ejemplos. El libro comienza con los aspectos básicos (transmisión de ondas, estimación de canal, diversidad en tiempo/frecuencia/antenas, sistemas celulares) y, más adelante, repasa en profundidad MIMO durante cuatro temas. Creo que este manual te dará las herramientas básicas para luego entender "papers" y seguir investigando. Eso sí, su tratamiento de los temas es muy formal y matemático. Si lo que quieres es un libro para entender por encima el vocabulario y escribir artículos en prensa general (por ejemplo, porque seas periodista), este no es tu libro. Si lo que quieres es entender de verdad los fundamentos de las comunicaciones inalámbricas, este sí es tu libro. Ideal para estudios de posgrado/doctorado en telecomunicaciones.

Whenever I need to refresh a wireless concept in a relatively easy manner, I always go back to this book.

Absolutely one of the best books in Wireless communication

nice reading

This book represents the cutting edge of the fundamentals of wireless communication, presented in an easy to digest format. If authors were added full derivation of the equations then it would become a single source for understanding Wireless Communication by both ways theoretically and practically