High-Performance Communication Networks

This in-depth presentation of emerging technologies used to build high speed, high performance communication networks explains how the converging telephone, data, and CATV technologies are combined into high performance networks and how to plan, manage, and control these networks.

Abstract

Contents 1 Wireless Networks 1 1.1 Introduction ...................................... 1 1.1.1 History of Wireless Networks ........................ 2 1.1.2 Wireless Data Vision ............................. 5 1.1.3 Technical Challenges ............................. 7 1.2 The Wireless Channel ................................. 8 1.2.1 Path loss ................................... 9 1.2.2 Shadow Fading ................................ 10 1.2.3 Multipath Flat-fading and Intersymbol Interference ............. 11 1.2.4 Doppler Frequency Shift ........................... 12 1.2.5 Interference .................................. 13 1.2.6 Infrared versus Radio ............................ 13 1.2.7 Capacity Limits of Wireless Channels .................... 14 1.3 Link Level Design .................................. 15 1.3.1 Modulation Techniques ............................ 15 1.3.2 Channel Coding and Link Layer Retransmission .............. 16 1.3.3 Flat-Fading Countermeasures ..