"Provides the reader with an overall picture of wireless communications, carefully expounds its technical details, not only covering a variety of main results and conclusions but also revealing the methodology used for their derivations"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mathematical background -- Channel characterization -- Digital modulation -- Minimum shift keying -- Channel coding -- Diversity techniques -- Processing strategies for wireless systems -- Channel equalization -- Channel decomposition techniques -- Turbo codes and turbo principle -- Multiple-access channels -- Wireless MIMO systems -- Cooperative communications -- Cognitive radio.

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