Chapter 1
Introduction
In this chapter we provide a brief and concise review of foundational topics that are of broad interest and usefulness in wireless communication engineering technologies. The notation used throughout is introduced in Section 1.1, and the basics of electrical circuits and signals are reviewed in Section 1.4, we focus on signals and systems concepts specifically for communications systems. The reader is expected to have come across much of the material in this chapter in a typical undergraduate electrical engineering program. Therefore, this chapter is written in review form; it is not meant for a student who is encountering all this material for the first time.
Similarly, reviews of foundational topics are provided in Chapters 2, 6, and 10 for the following areas:
- Chapter 2: review of selected topics in electromagnetics, transmission lines, and testing, as a foundation for radio frequency (RF), antennas, and propagation
- Chapter 6: review of selected topics in digital signal processing, digital communcations over wireless links, the cellular concept, spread spectrum, and othogonal frequency-division multiflexing (OFDM), as a foundation for wireless access technologies 5
- Chapter 10: review of selected topics in fundamental networking concepts, Internet protocol (IP) networking, and teletraffic analysis, as a foundation for network and service architectures
Compared to the present chapter, the topics in Chapters 2, 6, and 10 are generally more specific to ...
