Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Providing a holistic overview of the fundamental ideas underlying the interactions between communication layers and cross-layer communications, this book will help specialists in any one of the layers to appreciate the other layers. The information is presented systematically with fundamental and intuitive treatment of the functions of a network, which are usually treated compartmentally and in such expansive detail that the holistic view is obscured. The book is built around the concepts and engineering principles used in wireless communication systems and networks. The author first breaks down the complicated wireless communications system into different segments, such as layered protocol design, communication at the physical-layer, MAC/link layer and higher-layers, the information-theoretic principles used in wireless systems, wireless system models and their limitations and regulation of the radio spectrum. The book provides an intuitive explanation of the concepts used in each of these segments by exploring the reasons why some design decisions were made. It looks at what the alternatives could have been, what the engineering opportunities are, as well as offering advice in pursuing optimized system design. It focuses on how the ideas used in different segments are inter-related. Instead of listing the topics as they appear in a layered system, this book will introduce increasingly complex models for wireless communications and illustrate the main concepts that can be used to solve the problems implied by the models. The novel way of system-level treatment that this book provides enables researchers to relate their area of expertise to the other segments of the wireless system and obtain a broadened perspective. It can be used as a stand-alone guide, but also as a compendium to the texts that cover different system parts in details which are recommended in the further reading at the end of each chapter. The sequence and layout of the chapters supports quick and easy grasp of the basic concepts, evolving the chapters from simple to very complex topics and techniques"-- Provided by publisher.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1 An Easy Introduction to the Shared Wireless Medium -- 1.1 How to Build a Simple Model for Wireless Communication -- 1.1.1 Which Features We Want from the Model -- 1.1.2 Communication Channel with Collisions -- 1.1.3 Trade-offs in the Collision Model -- 1.2 The First Contact -- 1.2.1 Hierarchy Helps to Establish Contact -- 1.2.2 Wireless Rendezvous without Help -- 1.2.3 Rendezvous with Full-Duplex Devices -- 1.3 Multiple Access with Centralized Control -- 1.3.1 A Frame for Time Division

1.3.2 Frame Header for Flexible Time Division -- 1.3.3 A Simple Two-Way System that Works Under the Collision Model -- 1.3.4 Still Not a Practical TDMA System -- 1.4 Making TDMA Dynamic -- 1.4.1 Circuit-Switched versus Packet-Switched Operation -- 1.4.2 Dynamic Allocation of Resources to Users -- 1.4.3 Short Control Packets and the Idea of Reservation -- 1.4.4 Half-Duplex versus Full-Duplex in TDMA -- 1.5 Chapter Summary -- 1.6 Further Reading -- 1.7 Problems and Reflections -- Chapter 2 Random Access: How to Talk in Crowded Dark Room -- 2.1 Framed ALOHA

2.1.1 Randomization that Maximizes the ALOHA Throughput -- 2.2 Probing -- 2.2.1 Combining ALOHA and Probing -- 2.3 Carrier Sensing -- 2.3.1 Randomization and Spectrum Sharing -- 2.3.2 An Idle Slot is Cheap -- 2.3.3 Feedback to the Transmitter -- 2.4 Random Access and Multiple Hops -- 2.4.1 Use of Reservation Packets in Multi-Hop -- 2.4.2 Multiple Hops and Full-Duplex -- 2.5 Chapter Summary -- 2.6 Further Reading -- 2.7 Problems and Reflections -- Chapter 3 Access Beyond the Collision Model -- 3.1 Distance Gets into the Model -- 3.1.1 Communication Degrades as the Distance Increases

3.1.2 How to Make the Result of a Collision Dependent on the Distance -- 3.2 Simplified Distance Dependence: A Double Disk Model -- 3.3 Downlink Communication with the Double Disk Model -- 3.3.1 A Cautious Example of a Design that Reaches the Limits of the Model -- 3.4 Uplink Communication with the Double Disk Model -- 3.4.1 Uplink that Uses Multi-Packet Reception -- 3.4.2 Buffered Collisions for Future Use -- 3.4.3 Protocols that Use Packet Fractions -- 3.5 Unwrapping the Packets -- 3.6 Chapter Summary -- 3.7 Further Reading -- 3.8 Problems and Reflections

Chapter 4 The Networking Cake: Layering and Slicing -- 4.1 Layering for a One-Way Link -- 4.1.1 Modules and their Interconnection -- 4.1.2 Three Important Concepts in Layering -- 4.1.3 An Example of a Two-Layer System -- 4.2 Layers and Cross-Layer -- 4.3 Reliable and Unreliable Service from a Layer -- 4.4 Black Box Functionality for Different Communication Models -- 4.5 Standard Layering Models -- 4.5.1 Connection versus Connectionless -- 4.5.2 Functionality of the Standard Layers -- 4.5.3 A Very Brief Look at the Network Layer -- 4.6 An Alternative Wireless Layering