June 2012 | Assurance Wireless Program

WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications, 3rd Ed. Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The content is highly technical. Enough "meat" for the practising communications engineer who needs to know this topic well enough to actually develop devices. The book starts off with chapters that give a good general introduction to WCDMA. Explaining in broad terms how it works and the business applications....

Real 802.11 Security: Wi-Fi Protected Access and 802.11i Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the fourth book on 802.11 I have read in 8 weeks and for an important reason. The company I work for is moving more and more to wireless to provide connectivity to our customers.In terms of understanding architecture, and the cryptography behind the security protocols this was my favorite book....

Technical Communication Today (4th Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)An excellent book, very well presented and is easy to read and understand. I feel that this book has improved my writing abilities vastly in the past month.Click Here to see more reviews about: Technical Communication Today (4th Edition)Technical Communication Today remains the only text to fully centralize...

IP Design for Mobile Networks Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Cisco Press has published many technical books about their products and about networking in general. But this book is a little atypical in that it seems to have far more detailed content. Also and perhaps pleasantly to some readers, the level of detail is not about an exhaustive explanation of the features...

Peer-to-Peer Computing: Building Supercomputers with Web Technologies (Computer Communications and Networks) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is more specialised than the more recent text on peer to peer computing, P2P Networking and Applications (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking). The latter is a general survey across the major existing p2p platforms, while Loo describes one particular p2p instantiation.The book starts off with...

Digital Techniques for Wideband Receivers, Second Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a great intro to digital receiver design and techniques. The focus of this book however, is for those receivers which are used for Radar Warning Receivers (RWRs). The second chapter starts off with typical and desirable characteristics applicable to these type of receivers (wides bandwidth...

60GHz Technology for Gbps WLAN and WPAN: From Theory to Practice Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)60 GHz is now at the upper frontier of commercial radio technology but for the newcomer it is hard to approach because background material is scattered in many places. With the exception of the Teshirogi & Yoneyama book, which is both dated now and covers a broader selection of millimeterwave bands,...

Building the Mobile Internet (Networking Technology) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Do you need to increase your understanding of how mobility can be supported in IP networking? If you do, then this book is for you! Authors Mark Grayson, Kevin Shatzkamer and Klaas Wierenga have done an outstanding job of writing a book that examines the different techniques for building mobility into...

iPhone Pocket Guide, The (5th Edition) (Peachpit Pocket Guide) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It has been said many times already, but it's worth repeating: iPhone has completely revolutionized the way that we think of the phone, and is arguably the greatest leap in telephony since the mobile phones had gone mainstream. In recent couple of years many other smartphones have tried to emulate or...

The Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK (Developer's Library) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Contains good explanations about examples, plenty code ready to use, chapters are well divided, doing and showing exact what the topic says, no examples that you have to go implementing on it each chapter. Cover 100% of Android 2.0 and probably 95% of 2.2 version. It really helped me to start developing...

Syngress IT Security Project Management Handbook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In this book author Susan Snedaker covers the complete project management spectrum from the overall plan to individual project plans for various areas. The book is divided in to various sections including Defining, Organizing, Planning, Initiating, and Managing Change. She does a really good job of pointing...

GPS Quick Course 2nd Edition, Systems, Technology and Operation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Well constructed. Starts off with the simple explanations and by the end of the book you can do the calculations for GPS. It saved my butt!Click Here to see more reviews about: GPS Quick Course 2nd Edition, Systems, Technology and OperationThis book covers satellite position location technology and the...

Space-Time Coding: Theory and Practice Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I learned the essence of MIMO by reading this book. It is in simple words and yet backed by math formula.Click Here to see more reviews about: Space-Time Coding: Theory and PracticeThis book covers the fundamental principles of space-time coding for wireless communications over multiple-input multiple-output...

Mobile Communications (2nd Edition) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When you pick this book up, it looks completely boring! Neither the title nor the cover is enticing. However the content is excellent - it has a thorough coverage of all kinds of current and upcoming wireless technologies. Not many books today mention anything about technologies such as bluetooth, however...

RF Circuit Design, Second Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)RF design can either be understood from first principles through Maxwell's equations (wave theory) or from circuit analysis through the basic passive and active electronic components. This book takes the latter approach because it is much easier and far more practical for building actual circuits. Also...

Design of Ultra Wideband Antenna Matching Networks: Via Simplified Real Frequency Technique (Signals and Communication Technology) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Especially good are the Matlab code examples to work along with the text. The author is a recognized authority and interest in UWB systems is only increasing...Click Here to see more reviews about: Design of Ultra Wideband Antenna Matching Networks: Via Simplified Real Frequency Technique (Signals and...

LTE - The UMTS Long Term Evolution: From Theory to Practice Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a newcomer to standardisation work, this book has proven invaluable and my only regret is that it wasn't available when I first started work on LTE about a year ago. The book has saved me hours of tedious scouring of standards text. In this respect it is valuable both for people who are in telcos...