Wireless Communications & Networks (2nd Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: William Stallings
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 314763
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0131918354
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.382
EAN: 9780131918351
ASIN: 0131918354
Publication Date: November 22, 2004
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Stallings presents thorough, up to date introductions to every key aspect of wireless communications and networking: technology, architecture, types of wireless networks, design approaches, applications, standards, and more. Softcover.
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 fame or shame?:-) June 4, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This textbook is one of the best CS textbooks authored by Dr. Stallings!
However, best among what?
It seems that there is a strange, perhaps not very healthy situation that
major CS textbooks are monopolized by Dr. William Stallings. Why
does not somebody even give Dr. Stallings some competition. I am
a believer of the competition. No competition, no better products.
I guess it might be that many CS professors, especially those highly
qualified (say at top 10) are busy at writing proposal rather than
spending time on an undergraduate textbook. If that conjecture is
true, it might be a shame for the whole CS academia. Those big NSF
or DARPA grants receivers should ask themselves, what have I
done for my students? remember most students never have
chance to read your grant proposal and most undergraduates
simply do not have time to even read your research papers
published in journals or monographs.
 Better books are available May 27, 2007
I followed it in my undergraduate studies. It is an okay book, not anything exceptional, just average. I found Mobile Communications by Jochen Schiller better than this book. However with respect to contents it covers much more, particulalry on wireless communications stuff. Actually it should not be compared to Schiller's book because the two are covering relatively different contents. As the title of this book suggests: "Wireless Communicstions and Networks", much of the stuff it covers belong to wireless communications rather than wireless networks e.g., transmission fundamantals, antennas and propagation, signal and encoding techniques.
Many topics are actually belong to the introductory computer networks books but have been included here again, such as the introduction of TCP, IP, in chapter 4, which is, believe me, written in very dry style. Even interesting things look boring if presented this way.
Particulalry the chapters I found relatively well written are Chapter 5 "Antennas and Propagation" and Chapter 10 "Cellular Wireless Networks". However the contents on the cellular wireless networks are too limited. The networks technologies have been merely touched here. In contrast Schiller's book describes GSM, GPRS, UMTS/WCDMA, etc in a lot more detailed and interesting way. I did not follow WLAN chapters of this book since I consulted Schiller's book for it therefore I cannot say much about it.
Also sometimes it feels that too much math have been included, the writing style is not very interesting.
Wireless Communications & Networks January 11, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very suitable for beginners and intermediates. Easy to understand the sentences and main points but I think it would be much better if there is a solution guide for selected question at the end of the book.
 Search further for better books November 11, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I do not like it for the following reasons:
-It touches the subjects and does not go deep into it.
-It does not have examples.
-The very few examples in the chapters are not clear. You have to decipher it.
-Some of the end of the chapter problems talks about things not covered.
-It is not an easy read. You have to read a paragraph several time to figure it out.
-I do not recommend it.
-On second thought, I should have given it 1 star but it seems I can not change that.
 This book is worthless February 24, 2003
3 out of 30 found this review helpful
I've had numerous experiences with William Stallings networking books, and all of them are bad.My personal opinion is that he is that though it seems like he knows a lot (though I doubt it), he's not able to get that knowledge across to his readers. There are few examples and the post topic questions have little or no bearing on the subject matter of the chapters. Every one I knew in my networking classes and computer science classes felt the same way about this author. I'm sure there are other better books out there - don't know why lousy prof. seem to
require this for classes
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