Ultra-Wideband Communications: Fundamentals and Applications will be indispensable for everyone interested in UWB technology, regardless of their radio frequency experience: engineers, managers, marketers, analysts, purchasing agents, business strategists, journalists, and students alike.
Inside you will find
- An introduction to UWB: history, background, advantages, and challenges
- How UWB compares to narrowband and spread-spectrum wideband systems
- Fundamentals of UWB short-pulse generation and propagation
- Competing single-band and multiband approaches
- UWB antenna concepts and their implications for systems and networks
- Popular modulation/demodulation schemes and multiple-access techniques
- Coexistence with today's WLAN, GPS, and cellular phone systems
- Current and evolving FCC and worldwide regulation of UWB technology
- In-depth coverage of UWB applications and markets, with adoption timelines and forecasts through 2010
- A comprehensive, easy-to-understand glossary and extensive references for further reading