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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Haslett is the principal propagation adviser at Ofcom, the UK communication industries regulator. As well as experience conducting and directing research projects, he has many years' industrial radio-planning experience with Cable and Wireless plc., and as director of planning and optimization at Aircom International Ltd., where he directed the optimization of UMTS networks. He was also a senior lecturer at the University of Glamorgan. Klappentext A quick guide to understanding radio propagation issues for practitioners working in wireless communications! antennas and propagation. Zusammenfassung If you need to maximize efficiency in wireless network planning! this 2007 guide to understanding radio propagation issues is for you. Using real-world case studies! practical problems and minimum mathematics this is an invaluable resource for network planners! hardware designers! spectrum managers! senior technical managers and policy makers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Propagation in free space and the aperture antenna; 2. Point-to-area transmission; 3. The effect of obstacles; 4. Reflection, scatter and penetration; 5. Estimating the received signal strength in complex environments; 6. Atmospheric effects; 7. System design and interference management; 8. Software-based tools; 9. Summary; Appendix: A1. The decibel scale; A2. Phasor arithmetic and phasor diagrams; A3. Formula sheet; A4. Explanation of link budget; Bibliography; References; Author's biography.
