ULTRA Wideband Communications or Ruling Canada

ULTRA Wideband Communications: Fundamentals and Application

Author: Faranak Nekoogar

The Easy-to-Understand, Up-to-the-Minute Guide to UWB Technologies, Applications, and Markets

Ultra-wideband's exceptional capacity and power characteristics make it one of this generation's most exciting technologies. From wireless communications to entertainment, and from the automotive industry to homeland security, UWB is poised to revolutionize an extraordinary array of applications. Now, one of the field's leading experts presents the most accessible and up-to-date UWB guidebook ever written.

Dr. Faranak Nekoogar explains UWB principles and technologies simply and clearly, addressing key issues such as pulse generation, modulation, multiple access techniques, and interference. In addition, she presents a complete market analysis--identifying the most promising applications, initial and future markets, and regulatory trends.

Ultra-Wideband Communications: Fundamentals and Applications will be indispensable for everyone interested in UWB technology, regardless of their radio frequency experience: engineers, managers, marketers, analysts, purchasing agents, business strategists, journalists, and students alike.

Inside you will find

• An introduction to UWB: history, background, advantages, and challenges
• How UWB compares to narrowband and spread-spectrum wideband systems
• Fundamentals of UWB short-pulse generation and propagation
• Competing single-band and multiband approaches
• UWB antenna concepts and their implications for systems and networks
• Popular modulation/demodulation schemes and multiple-access techniques
• Coexistence with today's WLAN, GPS, andcellular phone systems
• Current and evolving FCC and worldwide regulation of UWB technology
• In-depth coverage of UWB applications and markets, with adoption timelines and forecasts through 2010
• A comprehensive, easy-to-understand glossary and extensive references for further reading

Table of Contents:

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

1. Introduction to Ultra-Wideband Communications.

Introduction

History and Background

UWB Concepts

UWB Signals

Advantages

Challenges

Differences Between UWB and Spread Spectrum

Single Band vs. Multiband

The Regulatory Situation

FCC Emission Limits

UWB Applications

Summary

References

Bibliography

2. UWB Sources and Antennas.

Introduction

UWB Pulse Generation

UWB Antennas

Summary

References

Bibliography

3. Pulse-Detection and Multiple-Access Techniques.

Introduction

Conventional Pulse-Detection Techniques

Pulse Modulation and Detection Techniques

UWB Multiple-Access Techniques

Summary

References

Bibliography

4. Interference Issues.

Introduction

Interference Effects on IEEE 802.11a/b WLANs

Interference to GPS Receivers

Interference to Cellular Systems

Summary

References

Bibliography

5. Applications and Target Markets.

Introduction

Initial Mass Market Opportunities

Speed-to-Market Advantages

Driving CE, PC, and Mobile Industry Convergence

Existing Potential Markets

Target Consumer Electronics Products

Target PC-Oriented Markets

UWB in Consumer Electronics Devices

UWB for PC-Oriented Applications

FutureMass Market

Adoption Timeline

Additional and Niche Markets

UWB Market Players

Summary

References

Bibliography

Appendix A: Theoretical Derivations of UWB Interference Effects on Existing Radio Systems.

802.11a/b WLAN Systems

GPS Receivers

CDMA-Based Cellular Systems

References

Abbreviations.

Glossary.

Index.

 

See also: Lei de Negócios e o Ambiente Legal, Edição Padrão

Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy

Author: Jamie Brownle

The "economic elite" has long been thought to cooperate at a corporate level to impact state and national policies and programs at the expense of the Canadian citizenry. However, this work reveals the expanding reach of the elite and their current encroachment into the noncorporate arena as yet another opportunity to exert their formidable influence. Citing the increasingly unified and class-conscious aspects of the group, this text reveals the degree to which this minority continues to prosper, dominate, and threaten Canadian democracy through numerous unifying mechanisms: corporate director interlocks; concentrated economic ownership; ties to the mass media; and the many business-oriented think tanks, philanthropic foundations, and corporate policy organizations. Maintaining that these existing relations need not be considered inevitable, the author challenges concerned citizens to come together to disrupt the political and economic status quo.