Wireless communications services are penetrating into our society at an explosive growth rate, and demands for a variety of high-speed wireless multimedia services continue to increase. It is everyone's wish that wireless could act like a wired connection with the same quality as fixed networks. To realize true high-speed wireless systems, sustained technical innovation on many fronts will be required. The physical limitations on and problems with wireless channels (bandwidth and power constraints, multipath fading, noise and interference) present a fundamental technical challenge to reliable high-speed wireless communications. This book is an ideal reference for graduate students and practitioners in the wireless industry.

The text of this book has been developed through years of research by the author and his graduate students. The aim of this book is to provide an R&D perspective on the field of high-speed wireless multimedia communications by describing the recent research developments in this area and also by identifying key areas in which further research will be needed.

The book is organized into four parts: introduction, ultra-wideband (UWB) communications, evolved 3G mobile communications and 4G mobile communications, with twelve chapters.