Acknowledgments


When writing a book, the authors usually have three groups of people upon whom they rely: those who support them financially, those who offer their advice, and those who contribute their skill.

We would like to acknowledge the Bradley Foundation for its financial support, through the Bradley Fellowship program, of Chris Anderson and Nathaniel August. We also offer our thanks to the National Science Foundation for its financial support, through an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training grant (award DGE-9987586), for Michelle Gong and James Neel. Many of the authors also received funding via the Industrial Affiliates program of the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group (MPRG) and through Virginia Tech VLSI for Telecommunications (VTVT).

We would especially like to thank our reviewers, whose comments and perspectives enriched this book: Robert Ulman of Army Research Labs, Krishna Balachandran of Lucent, Andy Molisch of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Jiann-An Tsai of Samsung, Dennis Akos of Stanford University, and Laurence Milstein and Claudio da Silva of the University of California, San Diego. In addition, we offer our most sincere gratitude to the following reviewers, who graciously gave of their time to review multiple chapters (some the entire book): Jonathan Cheah of femto Devices, Bruce Fette and John Polson of General Dynamics, Robert Aiello and Jason Ellis of Staccato Communications, Steven Sarraf of the U.S. Army, and Mauro Biagi of the University of Roma "La Sapienza."

Our appreciation is extended to the students in the Spring 2003 advanced simulation course at Virginia Tech, who developed a simulation of a UWB communications system as a class project. The students involved in this effort were Ihsan Akbar, Ramesh Chembil, Jina Kim, Hyung-Jin Lee, MarufMohammad, James Neel, Muhammad Nizamuddin, and Sujay Sachindar. The results of their class project formed the first draft of the simulation chapter of this book. We also acknowledge students who helped with other research that led to the writing of this book: Ahmet Bayram, Vivek Bharadwaj, Brian Donlan, Jihad Ibrahim, Gaurav Joshi, Dave McKinstry, Ali H. Muqaibel, Joseph Noronha, Swaroop Venkatesh, and Liu Yang. We offer our thanks to Chris Sadler for helping with Matlab code used in some of the examples in the interference chapter.

Finally, special thanks goes Cyndy Graham of Virginia Tech's MPRG, who worked tirelessly to form something cohesive out of submissions from numerous authors (all with different working and writing styles), and to Lori Hughes, a freelance production assistant (lori@lorihughes.com), who deftly guided us through the production process. We also offer our utmost appreciation to Bernard Goodwin, Acquisitions Editor at Prentice Hall PTR, for his patience and his guidance.



    An Introduction to Ultra Wideband Communication Systems
    An Introduction to Ultra Wideband Communication Systems
    ISBN: 0131481037
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 110

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