Short-range Wireless Communication

Alan Bensky is an electronics engineering consultant with over 30 years of experience in analog and digital design, management, and marketing. Specializing in wireless circuits and systems, Alan has carried out projects for varied military and consumer applications and led the development of three patents on wireless distance measurement. Alan has taught electrical engineering courses and lectures on radio engineering topics and is the author of two books: Short-range Wireless Communication, Second Edition, published by Elsevier in 2004, and Wireless Positioning Technologies and Applications, Second Edition, Artech House, 2016. In addition, he is a contributing author to five other books dealing with wireless communication. Alan Bensky holds degrees of B.E.E and B.A. from Union College, Schenectady, New York, and M.Sc.E.E. from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. He is a senior member of IEEE and an IEEE certified Wireless Communications Professional.

1. Introduction2. Radio propagation3. Antennas and transmission lines4. Communication protocols and modulation5. Signal generation and transmitters6. Receiver and digital radio architectures7. Radio system design8. System implementation9. Introduction to information theory and coding10. Regulations and standards11. Wireless local area networks12. Wireless personal area networks13. Radio frequency identification (RFID)14. Technologies and applications