Introduction

Abstract

Publisher SummaryThis handbook series of three volumes named as Wireless Communications Design Handbook covers introductory and advanced concepts in interference analysis and mitigation for wireless personal communications. The objective of this series is to provide fundamental knowledge to system and circuit designers about a variety of interference issues that could pose potentially detrimental and often catastrophic threats to wireless designs. The information presented in these three volumes contain a mixture of basic interference fundamentals but also extends to more advanced topics. The first volume presents a generalized description of launch vehicles and the reshaping of the space business in general in the post-Cold War era. A description is provided of several satellite systems being built presently for worldwide access to personal communication services. In the second volume of the handbook series, attention is focused on system-level noise and interference problems in ground fixed and mobile systems as well as personal communication devices (for example, pagers, cellular phones, and two-way radios). The third volume addresses interference and noise problems within the electronics of most wireless communications devices.