Reliable Communications for Short-range Wireless Systems
Ensuring reliable communication is an important concern in short-range wireless com-
munication systems with stringent quality of service requirements. Key characteristics
of these systems, including data rate, communication range, channel profiles, network
topologies, and power efficiency, are different from those in long-range systems. This
comprehensive book classifies short-range wireless technologies as high and low data
rate systems. It addresses major factors affecting reliability at different layers of the
protocol stack, detailing the best ways to enhance the capacity and performance of short-
range wireless systems. Particular emphasis is placed on reliable channel estimation,
state-of-the-art interference mitigation techniques, and cooperative communications for
improved reliability. The book also provides detailed coverage of related international
standards including UWB, ZigBee, and 60 GHz communications. With a balanced treat-
ment of theoretical and practical aspects of short-range wireless communications, and
with a focus on reliability, this is an ideal resource for practitioners and researchers in
wireless communications.
Ismail Guvenc is a Research Engineer with DOCOMO USA Laboratories, where his
research interests include UWB communications and position estimation, femtocell
networks, relay networks, LTE systems, and cognitive radio. He has published several
standardization contributions for IEEE 802.15 and IEEE 802.16 standards, and holds
four US patents, with another 15 US patent applications pending.
Sinan Gezici is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering at Bilkent University, Turkey. His research interests are in the areas of signal
detection, estimation and optimization theory, and their applications to wireless commu-
nications and localization systems. Among his publications in these areas is the recent
book Ultra-wideband Positioning Systems: Theoretical Limits, Ranging Algorithms, and
Protocols.
Zafer Sahinoglu is a Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff at Mitsubishi Electric
Research Laboratories, where his current research interests include UWB localization,
high efficiency wireless power transfer, low complexity space-time adaptive processing,
and game-theoretic dynamic energy pricing. He has contributed significantly to MPEG-
21, ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a, and IEEE 802.15.4e standards and holds two European
and 25 US patents, with 26 patents pending.
Ulas C. Kozat is the Project Manager for the Network Architecture team at DOCOMO
USA Laboratories. He has conducted research in the broad areas of wireless commu-
nications and communications networks, and has published mainly in cross-layer opti-
mization, network modeling and performance analysis, and algorithm/protocol design.
