University of Texas Professor Coauthors Simulation Textbook
January 20, 2004
A breakthrough textbook, involving authors from 4 major U.S. universities, has just been published on the topic of Communication Systems Simulation.
Prentice Hall has recently released "Principles of Communication Systems Simulation with Wireless Applications," authored by William Tranter of Virginia Tech, Sam Shanmugan of University of Kansas, Ted Rappaport of The University of Texas at Austin (UT), and Kurt Kosbar of the University of Missouri at Rolla.
The textbook was originally made possible by a National Science Foundation grant provided to Profs. Rappaport and Tranter in 1995 when they were both on the Virginia Tech faculty. The text is the first pedagogically complete text for use by seniors or early graduate students in the electrical engineering field, and has 18 chapters and hundreds of example problems and end-of-chapter problems.
"Until now, graduate students would perform monte-carlo simulation or waveform simulation, without having a strong understanding of how to check the validity of their work, and without full understanding of possible errors sources or decision-making guidelines," commented Rappaport, director of UT's Wireless Networking and Communications Group. "This text allows universities throughout the world to offer a solid, one-semester course on simulation of communication systems, and provides excellent depth for wireless engineering students in its latter chapters."
The textbook is 778 pages long, has ISBN 0-13-494790-8, and is part of the Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies Series.
