12 8 Information-Theoretic View on Wireless Channel Capacity 8.1 It Starts with the Law of Large Numbers 8.2 A Useful Digression into Source Coding 8.3 Perfectly Reliable Communication and Channel Capacity 8.4 Mutual Information and Its Interpretations 8.5 The Gaussian Channel and the Popular Capacity Formula 8.6 Capacity of Fading Channels 8.7 Chapter Summary 8.8 Further Reading 8.9 Problems and Reflections
13 9 Time and Frequency in Wireless Communications 9.1 Reliable Communication Requires Transmission of Discrete Values 9.2 Communication Through a Waveform: An Example 9.3 Enter the Frequency 9.4 Noise and Interference 9.5 Power Spectrum and Fourier Transform 9.6 Frequency Channels, Finally 9.7 Code Division and Spread Spectrum 9.8 Chapter Summary 9.9 Further Reading 9.10 Problems and Reflections
14 10 Space in Wireless Communications 10.1 Communication Range and Coverage Area 10.2 The Myth about Frequencies that Propagate Badly in Free Space 10.3 The World View of an Antenna 10.4 Multipath and Shadowing: Space is Rarely Free 10.5 The Final Missing Link in the Layering Model 10.6 The Time-Frequency Dynamics of the Radio Channel 10.7 Two Ideas to Deal with Multipath Propagation and Delay Spread 10.8 Statistical Modeling of Wireless Channels 10.9 Reciprocity and How to Use It 10.10 Chapter Summary 10.11 Further Reading 10.12 Problems and Reflections
15 11 Using Two, More, or a Massive Number of Antennas 11.1 Assumptions about the Channel Model and the Antennas 11.2 Receiving or Transmitting with a Two-Antenna Device 11.3 Introducing MIMO 11.4 Multiple Antennas for Spatial Division of Multiple Users 11.5 Beamforming and Spectrum Sharing 11.6 What If the Number of Antennas is Scaled Massively? 11.7 Chapter Summary 11.8 Further Reading 11.9 Problems and Reflections
16 12 Wireless Beyond a Link: Connections and Networks 12.1 Wireless Connections with Different Flavors 12.2 Fundamental Ideas for Providing Wireless Coverage 12.3 No Cell is an Island 12.4 Cooperation and Coordination 12.5 Dissolving the Cells into Clouds and Fog 12.6 Coping with External Interference and Other Questions about the Radio Spectrum 12.7 Chapter Summary 12.8 Further Reading 12.9 Problems and Reflections
17 Bibliography
18 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 3Table 3.1 Specification of the reception outcomes at Yoshi when Zoya and poss...
2 Chapter 6Table 6.1 A random sample of five consecutive channel uses.Table 6.2 Possible mapping of three data bits into two ternary symbols.
3 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Encoding rule for the simple code of rate
4 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Orthogonal codes allocated to the terminals.
List of Illustrations