Wireless Communications

In my opinion, its one of the classical text on wireless communications for master's students. Arrived on time, in excellent condition with no missing pages.

I’ve always liked this book the best for wireless communications! A must have for any graduate student!

It's just like a new one even though I bought it as second handed!

The book is a good companion to Professor Goldsmith's video lectures that were available on the internet (Class X and Calit2). The format of her classes and book is more like a survey of important wireless concepts.Some reviewers complained this book do not have enough mathematical rigor. This maybe true from the perspective of a communications engineer (with formal and lengthy academic training in digital communications, information theory, stochastic process etc.) For everyone else the depth and breadth of this book is just right as an introduction to wireless concepts.

This is one of the best books for Telecom Engineers. It is one of the books that will help me on my Ph.D. thesis.

The only use that I can think of for this book is as a survey course. It covers a very wide range of topics in the field of wireless communications, but there is no depth to it at all. The author's approach is to give a brief description of what the subject at hand is and then present the "final result" equation. All of the in-between material that actually teaches you what is going on is missing. I am halfway through a graduate level course using this book and I am sick to death of reading "if you want to know where this equation came from, then buy these other books and read these other three papers." I'm sorry, but that is what your book is supposed to do. I understand that covering this many topics means you aren't going to hit every gritty detail. But you should be able to lead me to the "final result" in such a way that I understood how you got there and actually learn the material. The only use for this book is if you are dealing with one of the specific scenarios it uses and want quick access to the equation that you need for it. If you have a general or derivative case then good luck. This book will not help you get there.

Gostei da abordagem. O livro é muito bom e a sequência dos conteúdos permite várias opções de leitura e estudo.

I used this book for a graduate level wireless comm. class taught by the author herself. This book is rife with errors especially in the first few chapters. Things got so bad that I started questioning every result presented in the book that I could not immediately understand and prove, thinking that it might be incorrect. This book is not recommended for self study due to these numerous errors unless the reader is just browsing and wants a qualitative understanding. One observation is that the author sacrifices breadth for depth in her coverage of the material. A minor quibble is that the author misses opportunities to give simple proofs for "low hanging fruit" results and just keeps presenting page after page of results and formulae. These translate to missed opportunities to build intuition for the student. In summary this book while it tries to be comprehensive suffers severely from sloppiness and is not recommended.