Building Mobile and Wireless Networks
Table-of-Content
Josef Noll
History and Future
History of wireless communications
Maxwell, Hertz, Marconi and other pioneers
1G, 2G ... 5G networks
Frequencies and Standards
Future Challenges
TOC - Basics of Communication
Electromagnetic Signals
Radio Communication Principles
Digital communication: Nyquist, Signal/Noise Ratio
Signal strength and Capacity: Shannon
TOC - Antennas and Propagation
Free Space Propagation
Antennas, Gain, Radiation Pattern
Multipath Propagation, Reflection, Diffraction
Attenuation, Scattering
Interference and Fading (Rayleigh, Rician, …)
Mobile Communication dependencies
TOC - Propagation models
Environments (indoor, outdoor to indoor, vehicular)
Outdoor (Lee, Okumura, Hata, COST231 models)
Indoor (One-slope, multiwall, linear attenuation)
TOC System Comparison
Proximity: RFID, NFC
Short Range: ZigBee, Bluetooth, ANT+,...
WLAN/Wifi/802.11...
Mobile: GSM, UMTS, IMT-A (WiMAX, LTE)
TOC - Mobility
Mobile Network mobility
IP mobility
TOC - Network Building
Future Networks: Heterogeneity, Basic Internet, Video Distribution Networks
Coverage simulations
Traffic simulations
Network Capacity simulations