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What Is Wireless Communication?
What Is Wireless Communication?
• guided media,
• electromagnetic waves are guided along a solid medium, such as
copper twisted pair, copper coaxial cable, and optical fiber.
• unguided media,
• wireless transmission occurs through the atmosphere, outer space, or
water.
TRANSMISSION MEDIA
• Mobile and wireless: No cable restricts the user, who can roam between different
wireless networks.
• Small-scale fading
• due to the constructive and destructive interference of the multiple signal paths between
the transmitter and receiver.
• multipath fading
• Large-scale fading,
• due to path loss of signal as a function of distance and shadowing by large objects such
as buildings and hills.
Introduction to Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
• Significant interference between transmitter–receiver pair
• The interference can be between
• transmitters communicating with a common receiver (uplink of a cellular system),