Wireless Communications and Networks

by William Stallings

Book Overview

Wireless Communications and Networks, 2e, provides one of the most up-to-date and accurate overviews of wireless principles, technology, and application. It is ideal for courses in wireless... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130408646
• ISBN13: 9780130408648
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

fame or shame?:-)

This textbook is one of the best CS textbooks authored by Dr. Stallings! However, best among what? It seems that there is a strange, perhaps not very healthy situation that major CS textbooks are monopolized by Dr. William Stallings. Why does not somebody even give Dr. Stallings some competition. I am a believer of the competition. No competition, no better products. I guess it might be that many CS professors, especially those highly qualified (say at top 10) are busy at writing proposal rather than spending time on an undergraduate textbook. If that conjecture is true, it might be a shame for the whole CS academia. Those big NSF or DARPA grants receivers should ask themselves, what have I done for my students? remember most students never have chance to read your grant proposal and most undergraduates simply do not have time to even read your research papers published in journals or monographs.

Wireless Communications & Networks

Very suitable for beginners and intermediates. Easy to understand the sentences and main points but I think it would be much better if there is a solution guide for selected question at the end of the book.

Excellent!

Clear, well-organized, and good level of detail. I was frustrated that so many data networking books do not adequately cover wireless, and this does that perfectly. There is even a website with PowerPoint presentations and pdf files of images from the text.

Very comprehensive.

First of all, this is a high quality book. Hardcover and fine paper makes it a pleasure to handle. The chapters are well organized into four parts, from Technical Background to Wireless Lans. Beware however, that this is a quite theoretical book. If you are looking for a fast approach to WLAN technologies, perhaps you should try simpler books like O'REILLY's 'Wireless Community Networks'.Nevertheless, it is an ideal textbook for academic purposes. I am using it as a reference for undergraduate courses. Chapters related to Signal Encoding and Spread Spectrum are really well written, and 802.11 and Bluetooth fundamentals are fully explained.Even if several parts of the book are taken (with little or none modifications) from other Stallings' books, the book is still worth to have since this fact makes it a completely self-contained reference.

A concise introductory textbook

If there is one word by which I would have to describe this book, it would be: "complete". The author assumes that the reader has nothing but very basic mathematic and scientific training and takes him all the way from first principles in those disciplines to the details of cellular networks, wireless LANs and Bluetooth to mention three of the latter chapters. The ample usage of illustrations, review questions and www-references position this as a high-quality textbook.Then again, if you are an experienced engineer, looking to solve a concrete problem for the wireless system you are presently sitting in front of, you will find that Stallings' book, because of its breadth of treatment, does not reach the necessary depth. In that case: read one of the many references for further study that the author offers.