Introduction to Wireless System Design - by Henry Lau & Ludy Liu & Keith C C Chan (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The most common wireless technologies use radio waves. With radio waves, intended distances can be short, such as a few meters for Bluetooth or as far as millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications. It encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and portable applications, including two-way radios, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wireless networking."-- Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

Technical insights on the vital aspects of hardware and software components in modern wireless system design

Introduction to Wireless System Design from Circuits to Web-based Applications provides an introductory level overview for readers to acquire technical insights on the most important aspects of modern wireless system design from an industrial and practical perspective.

Various functional blocks of wireless systems and products are discussed and analyzed with practical examples of commercial products. Software development is addressed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the development of complete wireless systems. The book concludes by presenting practical design examples followed by future trends.

Core topics covered in this book include wireless standards for GPS, Bluetooth, cellular, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, Sigfox, and NBIoT; major transmitter issues including power gain, power efficiency, harmonic prevention, and suppression; and server software development for building dynamic web interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Written by three highly qualified authors, the book also includes information on:

• System characteristics of hardware receivers, including noise temperature, bandwidth, figure, and sensitivity
• Components of circuit blocks in hardware transmitters, including oscillator, modulator, buffer amplifier, frequency multiplier, power amplifier, output filter
• Types of antennas, including dipole, monopole, loop, beam-forming, and miniature designs like patch, inverted-L, inverted-F, and meandered line
• Elements of software architecture design, including user interface, data and sequence flow, and timing diagrams
• Smartphone application software development, with insight on tools such as Android Studio, Flutter, React, and Swift

Introduction to Wireless System Design from Circuits to Web-based Applications is a highly practical and actionable resource on the subject for practicing engineers and programmers, as well as graduate and undergraduate students in related programs of study.

About the Author

Henry Lau is CEO of Lexiwave Technology, Inc. and has extensive experience in managing and developing IoT systems and devices for smart lighting and boxing systems.

Ludy Liu is a Senior Engineer at Veoneer. She has a breadth of experience architecting software solutions for ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and AD (Autonomous) Driving Systems.

Keith Chan is a Senior Instructor at the Shine Vocational Assessment Service in Hong Kong.