Comprehensive coverage of wireless signal propagation effects including attenuation, shadowing, fading, and interference. Explains frequency-selective fading, Doppler spread, coherence bandwidth, coherence time, and their implications for bit rate adaptation protocols.
Presents PHY-aware link layer design with SoftPHY hints for bit error rate estimation and streaming PHY interface. Discusses SoftRate bit rate adaptation protocol and SoftCMAP MAC protocol that leverage cross-layer information for improved wireless throughput.
Introduction to wireless communication networks covering challenges in wireless data throughput improvement. Discusses signal propagation, SNR fluctuations, wireless channel complexities compared to wired networks, multipath fading, interference issues, and PHY/link layer interactions.