OFDM for Mobile Multimedia Communications is the first book to take a comprehensive look at OFDM, including a comparison with other forms of single carrier modulation methods. This timely and practical new volume provides the design guidelines you need to maximize benefits from this important new technology. More than just a survey, you get practical guidance on how to plan, design, and use OFDM to make mobile multimedia communications happen. The book: Gives engineers a solid base for assessing the performance of wireless OFDM systems; Explains how OFDM signals are formed using the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform, how the cyclic extension mitigates the effects of modulation, and how windowing can limit out-of-band radiation; Discusses the sensitivity of OFDM to synchronization errors; Examines the basics of direct sequence and frequency hopping CMDA, helpful in understanding combinations of OFDM and CDMA; Explains Multicarrier CDMA, various transmitter architectures, and the pros and cons compared to other CDMA techniques; Includes a discussion of the combination of OFDM and Frequency Hopping CDMA to get a multiple access system with similar advantages to direct sequence CDMA. Written by acknowledged experts in the field of mobile multimedia communications, this book also explains how Quadrature Amplitude Modulation is an effective modulation technique for OFDM subcarriers, and looks at applications of OFDM, including digital audio and video broadcasting, and wireless ATM. Loaded with essential figures and equations, it's a must-have resource for practicing communications engineers, researchers, academics, and students of communications technology.
Introduction. OFDM Basics. Coding and Modulation. Synchronization. Channel Estimation. The Peak Power Problem. Basics of CDMA. Multicarrier CDMA. OFDMA and Frequency Hopping CDMA. Applications of OFDM.
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Ramjee Prasad
Ramjee Prasad is director of the Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF), Aalborg University. He is the author of OFDM for Wireless Communications Systems (Artech House, 2004), coauthor of Applied Satellite Navigation Using GPS, GALILEO, and Augmentation Systems, Multicarrier Techniques for 4G Mobile Communications, and WLANs and WPANs towards 4G Wireless, (Artech House, 2005, 2003, 2003), co-editor of Wireless IP and Building the Mobile Internet (Artech House, 2003), and is the author/coauthor of several other books published by Artech House.
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Richard D.J. Van Nee
Richard D.J. van Nee, Ph.D. is a member of the technical staff at Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs in the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Delft University, and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Twente University. Dr. van Nee was among those who proposed the OFDM-based physical layer, which was selected for standardization in IEEE 802.11, MMAC, and ETSI HiperLAN.