Distributed Antenna Systems: Open Architecture for Future Wireless Communications

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.