Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

Motivated by the rapid evolution of the consecutive generations of wireless communication systems this volume continues to provide an overview of the majority of single- and multi-carrier QAM techniques.

Now fully revised and updated, with more than 300 pages of new material, this new edition presents the wide range of recent developments in the field and places particular emphasis on the family of coded modulation aided OFDM and CDMA schemes. In addition, it also includes a fully revised chapter on adaptive modulation and a new chapter characterizing the design trade-offs of adaptive modulation and space-time coding.

Divided into four parts:

Part I: commences with a historical perspective and classic schemes for the uninitiated

Part II: offers a deep discourse on adaptive QAM arrangements that have found their way also into the 3G system's High Speed Data Packet Access (HSDPA) mode

Part III: details the advanced intricacies of adaptive versus space-time block- and trellis-coded OFDM and MC-CDMA

Part IV: contains previously unpublished new research results. It commences with a theoretical chapter on the capacity of wireless channels. The discussions then continue by contriving sophisticated iterative coded modulation systems, such as TCM, TTCM, BICM, BICM-ID designed for turbo-detected QAM-based space-time coded OFDM and CDMA systems operating over wireless channels

In summary, this volume amalgamates a comprehensive textbook with a deep research monograph on the topic of QAM, ensuring it has a wide-ranging appeal for both senior undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practicing engineers and researchers.

Lajos Hanzo, Fellow of the royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), received his Master degree in electronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. In 2004 he was awarded the Doctor of Sciences (DSc) degree by the University Southampton, UK. During his 28-year career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair in telecommunications. He has co-authored 10 John Wiley/IEEE Press books totaling about 8000 pages on mobile radio communications, published in excess of 500 research papers, organised and chaired conference sessions, presented overview lectures and been awarded a number of distinctions. Currently he is managing an academic research team, working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research council (EPSRC) UK, the European IST Programme and teh Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. Lajos is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Communications Society and the Vehicular Technology Society as well as a Fellow of both the IEEE and IEE. For further information on research in progress and associated publications, please refer to http://www-mobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk

Dr. Soon Xin Ng received  a first-class B.Eng. degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in mobile communications from the University of Southampton, U.K, in July 1999 and December 2002, respectively. Currently, he is continuing his research as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Southampton U.K. His research interests are mainly in adaptive coded modulation, channel coding, turbo coding, space-time coding and joint source and channel coding. He published numerous papers in this field.

Thomas Keller studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, the Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique, Paris, and the University of Southampton. He graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. degree in1995. Between 1995 and 1999 he was with the Wireless Multimedia communications Group at the University of Southampton, where he completed his PhD in mobile communications. His areas of interest include adaptive OFDM transmission, wideband channel estimation, CDMA and error correction coding. he recently joined Ubinetics, Cambridge, UK, where he is involved in the research and development of third-generation wireless systems. Dr. Keller has co-authored two monographs and about 30 various research papers.

Professor William Webb Head of R&D, Ofcom. William joined Ofcom as Head of Research and Development and Senior Technologist in 2003. Here h e manages a team of 35 engineers providing technical advice and managing research across all areas of Ofcom's regulatory remit. He also leads some of the major reviews conducted by Of com. Previously, William worked for a range of communications consultancies in the UK in the fields of hardware design, computer simulation, propagation modelling, spectrum management and strategy development. William also spent three years providing strategic management across Motorola's entire communications portfolio, based in Chicago.
William has published seven books, sixty papers, and four patents. He is a Visiting Professor at Surrey University. He is a Fellow of the IEE where he sits on the Publications Board, chairs the Advisory Committee for the Communications Magazine and is a Series Editor for the IEE Telecommunications Books. His biography is included in multiple "Who's Who" publications around the world. He sits on the judging panels of the Wall Street Journal "European Innovation Awards" and the GSM Association annual awards. William has a first class honors degree in electronics, a PhD and an MBA. He can be contacted at william.webb@ofcom.org.uk.