Short-Range Wireless Communications: Emerging Technologies and Applications / Edition 1

by Rolf Kraemer, Marcos Katz

Overview

This unique book reviews the future developments of short-range wireless communication technologies

Short-Range Wireless Communications: Emerging Technologies and Applications summarizes the outcomes of WWRF Working Group 5, highlighting the latest research results and emerging trends on short-range communications. It contains contributions from leading research groups in academia and industry on future short-range wireless communication systems, in particular 60 GHz communications, ultra-wide band (UWB) communications, UWB radio over optical fiber, and design rules for future cooperative short-range communications systems. Starting from a brief description of state-of-the-art, the authors highlight the perspectives and limits of the technologies and identify where future research work is going to be focused.

Key Features:

• Provides an in-depth coverage of wireless technologies that are about to start an evolution from international standards to mass products, and that will influence the future of short-range communications
• Offers a unique and invaluable visionary overview from both industry and academia
• Identifies open research problems, technological challenges, emerging technologies, and fundamental limits
• Covers ultra-high speed short-range communication in the 60 GHz band, UWB communication, limits and challenges, cooperative aspects in short-range communication and visible light communications, and UWB radio over optical fiber

This book will be of interest to research managers, R&D engineers, lecturers and graduate students within the wireless communication research community. Executive managers and communication engineers will also find this reference useful.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470699959
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/30/2009
Series:	Wiley-WWRF Series , #6
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dr Marcos Katz, VTT, Finland
Dr Katz received his PhD from University of Oulu, Finland in 2002. He has 20 years of experience in the field of wireless communications (industry, academia and, research institutions). He has edited 2 books and published widely in journals and conferences. He is currently a Technical Manager of EU FP6 Integrated Project dealing with new WiMAX scenarios, technical solutions and test-beds. He is developing multiantenna solutions for new WiMAX scenarios (environmental monitoring), and is also involved in exploring novel WiMAX architectures exploiting cooperation.

Professor Rolf Kraemer, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, Germany
Professor Kraemer headed the department of Telecommunication Systems and Multimedia Services at Philips Research in Hamburg and Aachen from 1985-1998. Since 1998 he holds the chair of (wireless) systems at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus. Additionally, he is department head of the wireless multimedia communications department at the IHP (Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics) in Frankfurt (Oder). In this position he leads a team of 25 R&D professionals in Frankfurt (Oder) with core competence in communications, electronic and VHDL design, protocol and application engineering for wireless communication, and expanding into networking and multimedia.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Short-Range Wireless Communications: Emerging Technologies and Applications

Editors: Rolf Kraemer and Marcos Katz

Preface

Acknowledgements

Forewords

Part I Introduction

1. Introduction

2. Design Rules for Future Short-Range Communication Systems

Part II UWB Communications: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Visions

Edited by Thomas Kaiser

3. UWB Propagation Channels

4. Pulse Shaping and Diversity

5. Non-Coherent Detection

6. Transmit Reference UWB Systems

7. Multiband Modulation in UWB Systems

8. Design of Synchronization Algorithms for UWB Systems

9. An Overview of UWB Systems with MIMO

10. UWB Localization Algorithms

11. UWB Transceiver for Indoor Localization

12. UWB Higher Layers

13. UWB Sensor Networks for Position Location and Imaging of Objects and Environments

14. Low Power UWB Hardware

15. Analog-to-Digital Converters for UWB

16. UWB Co-Existence Scenarios

17. UWB Regulation and Standardization

Part III 60 GHz Communication Systems: Concepts and Implementation Aspects (

Edited by Eckhard Grass

18. An Introduction to 60 GHz Communication Systems: Regulation and Services, Channel Propagation and Advanced Baseband Algorithms

19. Modulation techniques and system architectures for multi-Gb/s 60 GHz radios

20. System Concepts and Circuits for 60 GHz OFDM Transceiver

21. Enabling Technologies for 60 GHz Communications: Front-end Friendly Air Interface Design, Full CMOS Integration and System-in-a-package

22. Adaptive Arrays, Assembly Techniques and Compensation of Non-Linearities for 60GHz Technology

23. Improving Power Amplifier Utilization in mm-Wave Wireless Multicarrier Transmission

Part IV Emerging Concepts in Short-Range Communications

24. Ultra-Wideband Radio over Optical Fiber

25. Visible Light Communications