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Title: Wireless Personal Communications: Channel Modeling and Systems Engineering (Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 536) by William H. Tranter, Brian D. Woerner, Theodore S. Rappaport, Jeffrey H. Reed ISBN: 0-7923-7705-2 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $205.00

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Summary: Vast commercial potential in this field
Comment: The field of wireless personal communications is experiencing rapid growth worldwide. Most clearly seen in the huge uptake of cellphones in Europe, Japan and, to a lesser extent, the United States and China. Plus, WiFi has taken off strongly in the developed world, with enhanced 802.11 standards being quickly solidified and adopted.

This volume, as of its writing in 2000, describes much of the engineering and theoretical underpinning of this field. It does not have the 802.11 standards that came out after 2000, but much of the book is still very germane. There is no lack of research interest in this field, driven in no small part by the anticipation that nomadic computer and the rise of the pervasive Web have yet to occur. Still early days for those, we hope.

The field contains tough issues, as may be seen in several papers in the book. In earlier decades, wireless communications were often to and from antennas at fixed locations, with ample power. Or, if the antennas were mobile, like on planes, usually power was not a consideration. Nor the possible maximum length of the antennas. But in modern personal mobile uses, the constraints are far tighter. Power must be minimized, and you cannot draw out a one meter antenna.

Which gives great potential for researchers like yourself to invent and commercialise new applications, if you can overcome these challenges, aided perhaps by ideas in this book!