This book is designed to be a textbook for a graduate course in wireless communications. Specifically, the intent is to make it suitable for the first graduate course in wireless. Comments about specific chapters follow below:

Chapter 1: Introduction

The introduction is written very crisply identifying the key impediments to radio communications. It also provide a very informative introduction to wireless technologies, international regulation and spectrum assignment. I like the the description of all the different frequency bands and their relevant applications. This is very useful information that all communication engineers need to know; but is often overlooked in other recent books on wireless.

chapter 2: Propagation and Antennas

I am not an expert on antennas and propagation, but I found this chapter to be very clearly written and also easy to understand. A reader who is unfamiliar with the antenna and propagation mechanisms will greatly benefit from the exposition in this chapter.

Chapter 3: Channel Models

The description of channel models using linear systems theory and stochastic processes is adequate, just giving the bare minimum of the details of these models. However, the reference list provided in chapter 3 can be expanded to also include some references to the more recent wideband channel models such as being proposed for 3G systems. A section (a very brief one) on wideband channel models may also make this chapter more complete.

Chapters 4,5 & 6: Data, Transmission over Radio Channels, Diversity Systems, Error Control Coding for the Radio Channel