Distributed Antenna Systems

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.