Digital Communications Over Fading Channels (M.K. Simon and M.S. Alouini; 2005) [Book Review]

This book focuses on performance evaluation techniques for wireless systems in fading. It consists of five parts. The first part introduces system performance measures, types of fading encountered by wireless systems, and the basic types of communication (coherent, partially coherent, and noncoherent). The second part focuses on mathematical tools that are useful in performance evaluation. A comprehensive and detailed performance evaluation for different receptions, several channel models, and the performance measures outlined earlier is addressed in the third part of the book. The fourth part covers uncoded multiuser communications, while the fifth and last part of the book deals with coded digital communication in fading. A rich set of reference is provided. The book would be useful as a reference but not as a college textbook.