Interested in wireless communication? If you have Mathcad 14 or 15 installed, you can download a free copy of my interactive e-book Mobile Channel Characteristics. I’ve been selling it for ten years or so from my Shady Island Press website, but the demise of Mathcad 15 in a few years changed my mind. It would be better to get more copies out and working for a few years, and the best way to do that is a giveaway.
Mobile Channel Characteristics is the first, and so far the only, interactive text in wireless communications. Because it is written in Mathcad, it is a live document – try different parameter values, and the equations, tables and graphs recalculate as you watch. You can use its models, analyses, techniques and programs on the job or in your thesis to speed up your work. This book-length reference resides as a Mathcad handbook on your hard drive, just a mouse-click away.
Its scope runs from wireless propagation models, to multiantenna (MIMO) transmission, to simulation techniques and more. The treatment combines mathematical derivations with intuitive explanation and simple approximations. It is intended primarily for first-level graduate students and working engineers, although it is accessible to senior undergraduates. Use it to develop your understanding of the channels that underlie systems such as 3G and 4G cellular, UHF and SHF MIMO backhaul links, and wireless sensor networks.
If you’ve read this far, you might want more details – and the book itself – for free at http://www2.ensc.sfu.ca/people/faculty/cavers/Wireless_Ebook/ .
Jim