This interactive text introduces the propagation characteristics of mobile and personal communication – the ones that affect design of modems, smart antennas and cell system layout. Its strong tutorial flavor makes it suitable for graduate students and working engineers, as well as those entering the field from another discipline.

Mobile Channel Characteristics is an interactive text:

• The entire text resides on your hard drive. It is always ready, just a mouse click away.
  
• It is a live document. Try different parameter values, and the equations, tables and graphs recalculate as you watch. Animated graphs illustrate dynamics of the channel. Explore propagation, modulation or system models interactively to gain additional insight.
  
• You can use its many working programs on the job or in your thesis to speed up your work.
  
• It links you to the world. Hyperlinks connect you to websites of cited authors, to online research journals and to employers and graduate schools, all through the Internet.
  

The first edition, a 225-page hardcover book published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, has sold out. This expanded second edition, available only on CD ROM, is published by Shady Island Press. New features of the second edition: MIMO channels; antenna correlation in MIMO systems; bit error rate in diversity and correlated diversity; arrays of directional antennas with arbitrary geometry in limited angle spread; programs for simulating time-varying channel gains for correlated antennas; enhanced introduction; links to new online journals and author websites.

Mobile Channel Characteristics is best read in Mathcad, but can be viewed with your Internet Explorer browser. Free 120-day evaluation version of Mathcad included. Requires Microsoft Windows.

Table of Contents and sample files - have a look.

Priced at $40, it is ideal for student use as a primary or supplemental text. Buy it here.  Special pricing available for classroom use - ask us.