Praise for Fundamentals of WiMAX

AcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank our publisher Bernard Goodwin, Catherine Nolan, and the rest of thestaff at Prentice Hall, who encouraged us to write this book even when our better instincts toldus the time and energy commitment would be overwhelming. We also thank our reviewers, RobertoChristi, Amitava Ghosh, Nihar Jindal, and Mark Reed for their valuable comments andfeedback.We thank the series editor Ted Rappaport, who strongly supported this project from the verybeginning and provided us with valuable advice on how to plan and execute a co-authored book.The authors sincerely appreciate the support and encouragement received from David Wolterand David Deas at AT&T Labs, which was vital to the completion and timely publication of thisbook.The authors wish to express their sincere gratitude to WiMAX Forum and their attorney,Bill Bruce Holloway, for allowing us to use some of their materials in preparing this book.Jeffrey G. Andrews: I would like to thank my co-authors Arunabha Ghosh and RiasMuhamed for their dedication to this book; without their talents and insights, this book neverwould have been possible.Several of my current and former Ph.D. students and postdocs contributed their time and indepthknowledge to Part II of the book. In particular, I would like to thank Runhua Chen, whoseexcellent work with Arunabha and I has been useful to many parts of the book, including theperformance predictions. He additionally contributed to parts of Chapter 3, as did Wan Choi andAamir Hasan. Jaeweon Kim and Kitaek Bae contributed their extensive knowledge on peak-toaverageratio reduction techniques to Chapter 4. Jin Sam Kwak, Taeyoon Kim, and KaibinHuang made very high quality contributions to Chapter 5 on beamforming, channel estimation,and linear precoding and feedback, respectively. My first Ph.D. student, Zukang Shen, whoseresearch on OFDMA was one reason I became interested in WiMAX, contributed extensively toChapter 6. Han Gyu Cho also provided valuable input to the OFDMA content.As this is my first book, I would like to take this chance to thank some of the invaluablementors and teachers who got me excited about science, mathematics, and then eventually wirelesscommunications and networking. Starting with my public high school in Arizona, I owe twoteachers particular thanks: Jeff Lockwood, my physics and astronomy teacher, and ElizabethCallahan, a formative influence on my writing and in my interest in learning for its own sake. Incollege, I would like to single out John Molinder, Phil Cha, and Gary Evans. Dr. Molinder inparticular taught my first classes on signal processing and communications and encouraged meto go into wireless. From my five years at Stanford, I am particularly grateful to my advisor, TeresaMeng. Much like a college graduate reflecting with amazement on his parents’ effort in raisinghim, since graduating I have truly realized how fortunate I was to have such an optimistic,xxiii