4G Wireless Communication Networks

This book is a detailed compendium of these major advancements focusing exclusively on the emerging broadband wireless communication technologies which support broadband wireless data rate transmissions.

Johnson I. Agbinya, Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres, Ryszard Klempous

1. Cellular Mobile Communication Concepts 2. Radio Wave Propagation Models for Cellular Communications 3. Diffraction Models 4. Fading in Cellular Networks 5. OFDMA and SC-FDMA BER Performance for Rayleigh and Nakagami-m Fading Channels 6. SC-FDMA BER Performance for MMSE Equalized Fading Channels 7. Codes in Third and Fourth Generation Networks 8. Code Planning in WCDMA (UMTS) 9. Spread Spectrum 10. Planning of WCDMA Networks 11. WiMAX Technology 12. Planning and Dimensioning of WiMAX Networks 13. Introduction to LTE-Advanced 14. Developing a Computationally-Efficient Dynamic System-Level LTE Simulator 15. Multi-Carrier Cooperative Wireless Communication 16. Channel Allocation 17. Wireless Systems Operating Underground 18. Virtual MIMO Using Energy Efficient Network Coding in Sleep Apnoea Monitoring Systems 19. Electromagnetic Interference Immunity Enhancement Techniques and Applications 20. Gbps Data Transmission in Biomedical and Communications Instruments 21. All-Optical Signal Processing Circuits Using Multimode Interference Structures on Silicon Waveguides 22. A Low Noise Self-Cascode Configuration Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) for Bandgap Reference Voltage Circuit