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Summary: A great buy
Review: A surprisingly in-depth book considering the price of the book. The book is extremely well written even with all the mathematical equations, most of which were beyond my comprehension. Yet, I was able to understand and follow most of the basic concepts in the book based on the explanatory text, illustrations, and examples. I also downloaded the accompanying software and was able to run it without any problems. The GUI interface helps tremendously when running examples. I had initially purchased the book to familarize myself with the IEEE 802.11a standard since I have been recently tasked to do so. In addition, I found it useful in understanding aspects of the new IEEE 802.11g draft standard as well. Overall, I am very pleased with the book and very surprised at the quality since it is priced a third to a half of that for competing books.
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Summary: An excellent book on OFDM
Review: First of all, I appreciate athours of this book.
I think anyone who has looked at pracitical guide to understand IEEE 802.11a and Hiperlan/2 on OFDM and WLAN network can attest to how good they are to read. It has near all the necessary information for implement and deployment of WLAN in an easy way to read. However, some of parts for theoretical contents are not good enough for novices. Though I'm a novice of OFDM, I can implement WLAN PHY transmitter and receiver on OFDM system through this book. Also you can see several algorithms for receiver to archive packet detection and synchronization which are useful to implement them as well as diversity for MIMO system.
I'd like to recommend strongly, if you want to implement WLAN based on OFDM.
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Summary: funny book
Review: For me it was funny to read this book since we have it
at our work and I didn't have buy it.
I agree with others about the poor mathematical level of
this book. It seems to be that the authors had smoked some
joints while writing this book. Don't trust any formula.
For others it could be the cause for tears,
therefore I give you some recipie how to read it:
Try to read the book without worrying about math and
use it merely for some inspiration about OFDM when you
want to get into this field.
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Summary: Incredible Mathematics
Review: I cannot understand how this book can get reviews with more than 1 star given the number of mathematical errors it contains.
Ok, it IS a nice intro. But do not rely on the formulas !
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Summary: Practice and Theory handled very well
Review: I found this book to be an excellent mix of theory and practice. This book covers more details than short tutorial courses given at conferences but has more general concepts than some books that cover standards related communications. There are ample references to allow researchers to selectively delve into the more mathematical aspects or quickly come up to speed on some of the more recent research progress. I especially liked the chapters on "modulation & coding" and antenna diversity. Some of the more standard topics (e.g. RF distortion analysis) were helpful to non-RF people like myself.
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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: I have been in this business a good many years. In my opinion this is a book that very definitely merits a 5 star rating. The topics are very clearly dealt with and in an easy to understand manner. The software that accompanies this book is in my opinion, a first. It is of a high calibre in terms of coding and performance and merits close study and helps to really understand the subject. I recommend this book to 802.11a specialists everywhere.
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Summary: You don't need to pay an outrageous price for quality
Review: I originally bought this book because of a small interest on the HiperLAN physical layer and was throughly surprised by the content. The diagrams, equations, and accompanying software gave me a greater understanding of HiperLAN and IEEE 802.11a than I thought it would in a relatively short period of time. Other books of this depth that I browsed through were in a signifcantly different price range and often weren't as easy to follow. I would recommend this text to any who need a helping hand with either of these two areas of communications and I'm sure even quite a few experts would find the book useful.
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Summary: An excellent book to understand OFDM system
Review: I ran into so many mistakes that I stopped reading after the third chapter. Wow. What happened? An OFDM beginner has little chance to learn from this book. SAMS should be ashamed.
\The MATLAB code doesn't even run. No SAMS books for me, ever again.
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Summary: Whew, too many mistakes!!
Review: I ran into so many mistakes that I stopped reading after the third chapter. Wow. What happened? An OFDM beginner has little chance to learn from this book. SAMS should be ashamed.
\The MATLAB code doesn't even run. No SAMS books for me, ever again.
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Summary: One of the best books to understand OFDM system.
Review: I thank authors of this book. Because it gave me lots of knowledge about the receiver of WLAN based on OFDM system. Especially I could implement successfully packet detection and synchronization simulation after reading this book even though I'm a beginner of OFDM. You can see several algorithms to achieve them. Also it provides lots of equations as well as figures to help understanding. you can get basic knowledge of OFDM comparing with single carrier system and profound algorithms to achieve modulation, coding and antenna diversity, It contains IEEE 802.11a and HiperLAN/2 system as well. So I really recommend this textbook if you are interesting the WLAN system based on OFDM. Good Luck!
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