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Wireless technology is a truly revolutionary paradigm shift, enabling multimedia communications between people and devices from any location. It also underpins exciting applications such as sensor networks, smart homes, telemedicine, and automated highways. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying theory, design techniques and analytical tools of wireless communications, focusing primarily on the core principles of wireless system design. The book begins with an overview of wireless systems and standards. The characteristics of the wireless channel are then described, including their fundamental capacity limits. Various modulation, coding, and signal processing schemes are then discussed in detail, including state-of-the-art adaptive modulation, multicarrier, spread spectrum, and multiple antenna techniques. The concluding chapters deal with multiuser communications, cellular system design, and ad-hoc network design. Design insights and tradeoffs are emphasized throughout the book. It contains many worked examples, over 200 figures, almost 300 homework exercises, over 700 references, and is an ideal textbook for students. The book is also a valuable reference for engineers in the wireless industry. Andrea Goldsmith received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to this she was an Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Technology. She has also held positions in industry at Maxim Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, has received numerous other awards and honors, and is the author of over 150 technical papers in the field of wireless communications.

About the Author

Andrea J. Goldsmith received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. She was the Stephen Harris Professor of Engineering and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where she is currently a Harris Professor Emerita. She founded and served as the Chief Technical Officer of Plume WiFi (formerly Accelera, Inc.) and Quantenna (QTNA), Inc. She is the Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Medtronic (MDT) and Crown Castle Inc. (CCI). She is the author of the book Wireless Communications (Cambridge University Press) and the coauthor of the books MIMO Wireless Communications (Cambridge University Press) and Principles of Cognitive Radio (Cambridge University Press). She is an inventor on 29 patents. Her research interests include information theory, communication theory, and signal processing, and their application to wireless communications, interconnected systems, and neuroscience.,Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of Stanford. She has received several awards for her work, including the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Sumner Technical Field Award, the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the ComSoc Armstrong Technical Achievement Award, the Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, the WICE Mentoring Award, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award. She is currently the Founding Chair of the IEEE Board of Directors Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Ethics. She served as the President for the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2009, as the Founding Chair of its Student Committee, and as the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Information Theory. She has also served on the Board of Governors for both the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Societies. At Stanford, she has served as the Chair for Stanford’s Faculty Senate and for multiple terms as a Senator, and on its Academic Council Advisory Board, Budget Group, Committee on Research, Planning and Policy Board, Commissions on Graduate and on Undergraduate Education, Faculty Women’s Forum Steering Committee, and Task Force on Women and Leadership.(Based on document published on 26 March 2021).