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There's a wireless revolution underway! With The Essential Guide to RF and Wireless, Second Edition, you can help drive that revolution, even if you don't have a technical background. This clear, concise, easy-to-understand briefing cuts through the jargon to explain how today's wireless systems really work. Fully updated to reflect the hottest technologies: wireless LANs, broadband fixed wireless, new GPS systems, smart antennas, and much more.

Carl J. Weisman
Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 332pp.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pubished: January 2002

This comprehensive guide can show your business how to attack and conquer all the security issues involved in wireless communications. Experts Randall Nichols and Panos Lekkas lay out the vulnerabilities, response options, and real-world costs.

Randall Nichols, Panos Lekkas
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: December 2001

In Building Wireless Community Networks, author and O'Reilly networkadministrator Rob Flickenger offers a compelling case for building wireless networks on a local level: They are inexpensive, and they can be implemented and managed by the community using them, whether it's a school, a neighborhood, or a small business. This nuts-and-bolts guide provides all the necessary information for planning a network, getting the necessary components, and understanding protocols that you need to design and implement your network.

Rob Flickenger, Sue Miller (Editor)
Format: Paperback, 125pp.
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
Published: November 2001

Offering a wealth of practical information on the implementation realities of wireless communications, this book also contains up-to-date information on the major wireless communication standards from around the world. Covers every fundamental aspect of wireless communications, from cellular system design to networking, plus the world-wide standards.

Theodore S. Rappaport (Editor)
Format: Hardcover, 2nd ed, 736pp.
Published: December  2001

With this book, you'll benefit from the following: Ability to select the most effective wireless LAN type from a wide assortment of recent and emerging standards; Independent assessment of competing wireless LAN technologies; More efficient design and operational support of wireless LANs because of an understanding of wireless LAN protocol operations and frame structures; Definition of typical requirements and technology assessment parameters, providing a basis for evaluating wireless LANs; Vision of the future of wireless LANs; Real-world experiences through case studies and implementation tips located throughout the book; Quick overview of the features, pros, and cons of each of the wireless LAN standards located at the beginning of each chapter.

Jim T. Geier
Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 345pp.
Published: June 2001

How Wireless Works continues in the How It Works series tradition by explaining every aspect of wireless communications, from the remote control on your coffee table to the most sophisticated wireless Internet networks. As wireless technology proliferates, readers will need to understand how wireless technologies work in order to make educated buying and business decisions related to wireless technologies. This book will provide readers with a basic technical background on wireless technologies, including infrared, radio-frequency, power line, and PNA (wireless home networking.)

Preston Gralla
Format: Paperback, 232pp.
Publisher: Que
Published: November 2001

This book digs into the gritty details of day to day network operations. It details the difficulties service providers will experience in making the changeover from 2nd Generation systems (CDMS etc.) to 2.5 generation systems like WAP and EDGE and finally to full throttle 3G networks by explicating key standards, digging deep into the guts of the relevant network protocols, and detailing the full range of compatibility issues between the US (CDMA 2000) and European (WCDMA) versions of the standard.

Clint Smith
Format: Paperback, 500pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: September 2001

This comprehensive, well-organized text covers wireless communication and networks, and the rapidly growing associated technologies—the most exciting areas in the overall communications field. It explores the key topics in the following general categories: technology and architecture, network type, design approaches, and applications. An emphasis on specific wireless standards reflects the importance of such standards in defining the available products and future research directions in this field.

William Stallings
Format:Textbook Paperback, 1st ed., 600pp.
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Published: August 2001

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Complete Wireless Design is a great guide to wireless system hardware and circuit design for engineers and technicians working in wireless telecommunications. You'll learn how to design cutting-edge filters, amplifiers, RF switches, oscillators, and more. Algebraic formulas are presented and clearly explained, showing how to design complex wireless receivers and transmitters all the way down to the circuit level.

Cotter W. Sayre
Format: Hardcover, 547pp.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Book Group
Published: January 2001

A text for a first course in wireless management, as well as a tool for managers in need of an expanded understanding of wireless carrier systems, their operation and optimization. Shows readers how voice and data systems work, including cellular radio systems, RF channelization and propogation, enhancers, and microcells.

Paul Bedell
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Professional Book Group
March 2001

PDAs, Internet phones, web pads - wireless is here in a big way. But just because potential customers have "unplugged" themselves doesn't mean you can't reach them. The best news is, you don't need a lot of computer expertise to capitalize on the snowballing mobile commerce trend. The Get-Started Guide to M-Commerce is a non-technical, easy-to-use introduction that takes you and your company through the strategic, technical, and marketing processes crucial to transforming your business into a mobile-market success story. From deciding whether or not to "go mobile"

Danielle Zilliox
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 250pp.
Publisher: AMACOM
Published: June 2002

Nathan Blaunstein, Jorgen Bach Andersen
Format: Hardcover, 316pp.
Publisher: Artech House, Incorporated
Published: June 2002
 

Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) technology is significantly more complex than cordless telephony; loss, coverage, and bandwidth requirements are much more stringent and the proliferation of wireless LANs in corporate environments has resulted in interesting security challenges. IEEE 802.11-based products offered by Cisco Systems have quickly become one of the foundational technologies fostering the untethering of data communications. Building a Cisco Wireless LAN will bring you up to speed fast with Cisco Wi-Fi technology.

Ron Fuller, Arthure Pfund, Robert Padjen, Tim Blankenship
Format: Paperback, 528pp.
Publisher: Syngress Publishing
Published: May 2002