Description: Rapid growth in mobile communications has led to an increasing demand for wideband high data rate communications services. In recent years, distributed antenna system has emerged as a promising candidate for the future. This book provides a comprehensive guide to recent advances and issues in DAS. It addresses challenges in architecture, capacity, connectivity, scalability, routing, medium access control, scheduling, dynamic channel assignment, and cross-layer optimization. Additional coverage provided in Distributed Antenna Systems: Open Architecture for Future Wireless Communications includes physical layer issues, protocol issues, applications, and future directions.
