Cellular Mobile Systems Engineering

Cellular Mobile Systems Engineering

Author: Saleh Faruque

Publisher: Artech House Publishers

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780890065181

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This comprehensive new guide brings you up to date on the key concepts, underlying principles, and practical applications of fast-moving cellular communication technology -- presenting timely information that you can put to use immediately in tackling real-world design problems.


Wireless and Cellular Communications

Wireless and Cellular Communications

Author: William C. Y. Lee

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2005-11-16

Total Pages: 851

ISBN-13: 007150141X

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The wireless pioneer William C.Y. Lee, technology leader and author of the #1 book on wireless communications, has now completely updated his classic. This all-new, in-depth engineering guide for both voice and data services, Wi-Fi, 3G, WiMAX, and more, is essential reading for anyone working in this dynamic field. On-the-ground engineering coverage of B2G, 3G, B3G, 4G, and all other major systems Specifications for AMPS, GSM Family, iDEN, PHS, cdmaOne, WCDMA, HSDPA, CDMA2000, EV-DO, EV-DV, TD-SCDMA, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, etc. Antenna specifications for base stations and handsets Introduction of new technologies -- CS-OFDM, MIMO, LDPC, Turbo Code, CCK Code, RFID, etc. Engineering parameters for portable systems, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UWB, ZigBee, IR, and more Intelligent Cells -- All IP, in-building systems, etc. Intelligent Networks -- All IP, ad hoc, mesh, sensor, etc. Switches -- Circuit, Packet, ATM, Soft, etc. INSIDE: INSIGHTFUL, IN-DEPTH ENGINEERING * Introduction to Wireless Communications * Introduction to Cellular Systems * Specification of Analog Cellular Systems * Specification of Digital Cellular Systems * Specification of Newly Mobile Systems * Specification of WLAN and WMAN Systems * Cell Coverage and Antennas * Cochannel Interference * Types of Noncochannel Interference * Frequency Management and Channel Assignment * Handoffs and Dropped Calls * Operational Technology and Techniques * Switching and Traffic * Data Links and Microwaves * System Evaluations * Intelligent Cell Concept * Intelligent and All-IP Networks * Mobile Communications-Related Topics * 4G Perspectives


Cellular Mobile Communication

Cellular Mobile Communication

Author: Gottapu Sasibhushana Rao

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 937

ISBN-13: 8131798615

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Mobile Cellular Communication covers all the important aspects of cellular and mobile communications from the Internet to signals, access protocols and cellular systems and is a self-sufficient resource with adequate stress on the principles that govern the behavior of mobile communication along with the applications. The book includes applications such as designing/planning/ installation and maintenance of cellular operators, I-FI, and WIMAX, ZIBEE, BLUETOOTH and GPRS networks. It also includes advanced technologies like CDMA 2000, WCDMA, 3G, 4G and beyond 4G and contains 160 examples and 540 exercises.


Introduction to Wireless and Mobile Systems

Introduction to Wireless and Mobile Systems

Author: Dharma P. Agrawal

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9781305087132

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Focusing on qualitative descriptions and realistic explanations of relationships between wireless systems and performance parameters, INTRODUCTION TO WIRELESS AND MOBILE SYSTEMS, 4e explains the general principles of how wireless systems work, how mobility is supported, what the underlying infrastructure is and what interactions are needed among different functional components. Rather than offering a thorough history of the development of wireless technologies or an exhaustive list of work being carried out, the authors help computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering students learn this exciting technology through relevant examples, such as understanding how a cell phone starts working as soon as they get out of an airplane. This edition offers the most extensive coverage of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks available for the course and includes up-to-date coverage of the latest wireless technologies. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.


Cellular and mobile communication

Cellular and mobile communication

Author: Balamurali

Publisher: Balamurali

Published:

Total Pages: 190

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Contents 1 Introductory Concepts 1 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Evolution of Mobile Radio Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.3 Present Day Mobile Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.4 Fundamental Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.4.1 Radio Transmission Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.5 How a Mobile Call is Actually Made? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.5.1 Cellular Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.5.2 Operational Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.5.3 Making a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.6 Future Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2 Modern Wireless Communication Systems 11 2.1 1G: First Generation Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2 2G: Second Generation Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2.1 TDMA/FDD Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2.2 CDMA/FDD Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2.3 2.5G Mobile Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3 3G: Third Generation Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.3.1 3G Standards and Access Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.3.2 3G W-CDMA (UMTS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.3.3 3G CDMA2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.3.4 3G TD-SCDMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.4 Wireless Transmission Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.4.1 Wireless Local Loop (WLL) and LMDS . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.4.2 Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.4.3 Wireless Local Area Networks (W-LAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.4.4 WiMax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.4.5 Zigbee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.4.6 Wibree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.5 Conclusion: Beyond 3G Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2.6 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3 The Cellular Engineering Fundamentals 23 3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3.2 What is a Cell? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3.3 Frequency Reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.4 Channel Assignment Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3.4.1 Fixed Channel Assignment (FCA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3.4.2 Dynamic Channel Assignment (DCA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3.5 Hando Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.5.1 Factors In uencing Hando s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.5.2 Hando s In Di erent Generations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.5.3 Hando Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3.5.4 A Few Practical Problems in Hando Scenario . . . . . . . . 33 3.6 Interference & System Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3.6.1 Co-channel interference (CCI). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3.6.2 Adjacent Channel Interference (ACI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3.7 Enhancing Capacity And Cell Coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.7.1 The Key Trade-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3.7.2 Cell-Splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 3.7.3 Sectoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.7.4 Microcell Zone Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 3.8 Trunked Radio System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3.9 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4 Free Space Radio Wave Propagation 54 4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 4.2 Free Space Propagation Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 4.3 Basic Methods of Propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.3.1 Re ection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.3.2 Di raction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 4.3.3 Scattering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 4.4 Two Ray Re ection Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 4.5 Di raction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 4.5.1 Knife-Edge Di raction Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4.5.2 Fresnel Zones: the Concept of Di raction Loss . . . . . . . . 66 4.5.3 Knife-edge di raction model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 4.6 Link Budget Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 4.6.1 Log-distance Path Loss Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 4.6.2 Log Normal Shadowing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 4.7 Outdoor Propagation Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 4.7.1 Okumura Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 4.7.2 Hata Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 4.8 Indoor Propagation Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 4.8.1 Partition Losses Inside a Floor (Intra- oor) . . . . . . . . . . 72 4.8.2 Partition Losses Between Floors (Inter- oor) . . . . . . . . . 73 4.8.3 Log-distance Path Loss Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 4.9 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 4.10 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5 Multipath Wave Propagation and Fading 75 5.1 Multipath Propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 5.2 Multipath & Small-Scale Fading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 5.2.1 Fading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5.2.2 Multipath Fading E ects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5.2.3 Factors In uencing Fading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 5.3 Types of Small-Scale Fading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 5.3.1 Fading E ects due to Multipath Time Delay Spread . . . . . 77 5.3.2 Fading E ects due to Doppler Spread . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 5.3.3 Doppler Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 5.3.4 Impulse Response Model of a Multipath Channel . . . . . . . 80 5.3.5 Relation Between Bandwidth and Received Power . . . . . . 82 5.3.6 Linear Time Varying Channels (LTV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 5.3.7 Small-Scale Multipath Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 5.4 Multipath Channel Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 5.4.1 Time Dispersion Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 5.4.2 Frequency Dispersion Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 5.5 Statistical models for multipath propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 5.5.1 NLoS Propagation: Rayleigh Fading Model . . . . . . . . . . 91 5.5.2 LoS Propagation: Rician Fading Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 5.5.3 Generalized Model: Nakagami Distribution . . . . . . . . . . 94 5.5.4 Second Order Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 5.6 Simulation of Rayleigh Fading Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 5.6.1 Clarke's Model: without Doppler E ect . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 5.6.2 Clarke and Gans' Model: with Doppler E ect . . . . . . . . . 96 5.6.3 Rayleigh Simulator with Wide Range of Channel Conditions 97 5.6.4 Two-Ray Rayleigh Faded Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 5.6.5 Saleh and Valenzuela Indoor Statistical Model . . . . . . . . 98 5.6.6 SIRCIM/SMRCIM Indoor/Outdoor Statistical Models . . . . 98 5.7 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 5.8 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 6 Transmitter and Receiver Techniques 101 6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 6.2 Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 6.2.1 Choice of Modulation Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 6.2.2 Advantages of Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 6.2.3 Linear and Non-linear Modulation Techniques . . . . . . . . . 103 6.2.4 Amplitude and Angle Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 6.2.5 Analog and Digital Modulation Techniques . . . . . . . . . . 104 6.3 Signal Space Representation of Digitally Modulated Signals . . . . . 104 6.4 Complex Representation of Linear Modulated Signals and Band Pass Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 6.5 Linear Modulation Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 6.5.1 Amplitude Modulation (DSBSC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 6.5.2 BPSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 6.5.3 QPSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 6.5.4 O set-QPSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 6.5.5 =4 DQPSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 6.6 Line Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 6.7 Pulse Shaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 6.7.1 Nyquist pulse shaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 6.7.2 Raised Cosine Roll-O Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 6.7.3 Realization of Pulse Shaping Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 6.8 Nonlinear Modulation Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 6.8.1 Angle Modulation (FM and PM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 6.8.2 BFSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 6.9 GMSK Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 6.10 GMSK Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 6.11 Two Practical Issues of Concern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 6.11.1 Inter Channel Interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 6.11.2 Power Ampli er Nonlinearity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 6.12 Receiver performance in multipath channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 6.12.1 Bit Error Rate and Symbol Error Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 6.13 Example of a Multicarrier Modulation: OFDM . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 6.13.1 Orthogonality of Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 6.13.2 Mathematical Description of OFDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 6.14 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 6.15 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 7 Techniques to Mitigate Fading E ects 129 7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 7.2 Equalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 7.2.1 A Mathematical Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 7.2.2 Zero Forcing Equalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 7.2.3 A Generic Adaptive Equalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 7.2.4 Choice of Algorithms for Adaptive Equalization . . . . . . . . 134 7.3 Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 7.3.1 Di erent Types of Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 7.4 Channel Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 7.4.1 Shannon's Channel Capacity Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 7.4.2 Block Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 7.4.3 Convolutional Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 7.4.4 Concatenated Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 7.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 7.6 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 8 Multiple Access Techniques 157 8.1 Multiple Access Techniques for Wireless Communication . . . . . . . 157 8.1.1 Narrowband Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 8.1.2 Wideband Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 8.2 Frequency Division Multiple Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 8.2.1 FDMA/FDD in AMPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 8.2.2 FDMA/TDD in CT2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 8.2.3 FDMA and Near-Far Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 8.3 Time Division Multiple Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 8.3.1 TDMA/FDD in GSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 8.3.2 TDMA/TDD in DECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 8.4 Spread Spectrum Multiple Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 8.4.1 Frequency Hopped Multiple Access (FHMA) . . . . . . . . . 163 8.4.2 Code Division Multiple Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 8.4.3 CDMA and Self-interference Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 8.4.4 CDMA and Near-Far Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 8.4.5 Hybrid Spread Spectrum Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 8.5 Space Division Multiple Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 8.6 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 8.7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167


Mobile and Wireless Communications

Mobile and Wireless Communications

Author: Salma Ait Fares

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9533070420

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Mobile and wireless communications applications have a clear impact on improving the humanity wellbeing. From cell phones to wireless internet to home and office devices, most of the applications are converted from wired into wireless communication. Smart and advanced wireless communication environments represent the future technology and evolutionary development step in homes, hospitals, industrial, vehicular and transportation systems. A very appealing research area in these environments has been the wireless ad hoc, sensor and mesh networks. These networks rely on ultra low powered processing nodes that sense surrounding environment temperature, pressure, humidity, motion or chemical hazards, etc. Moreover, the radio frequency (RF) transceiver nodes of such networks require the design of transmitter and receiver equipped with high performance building blocks including antennas, power and low noise amplifiers, mixers and voltage controlled oscillators. Nowadays, the researchers are facing several challenges to design such building blocks while complying with ultra low power consumption, small area and high performance constraints. CMOS technology represents an excellent candidate to facilitate the integration of the whole transceiver on a single chip. However, several challenges have to be tackled while designing and using nanoscale CMOS technologies and require innovative idea from researchers and circuits designers. While major researchers and applications have been focusing on RF wireless communication, optical wireless communication based system has started to draw some attention from researchers for a terrestrial system as well as for aerial and satellite terminals. This renewed interested in optical wireless communications is driven by several advantages such as no licensing requirements policy, no RF radiation hazards, and no need to dig up roads besides its large bandwidth and low power consumption. This second part of the book, Mobile and Wireless Communications: Key Technologies and Future Applications, covers the recent development in ad hoc and sensor networks, the implementation of state of the art of wireless transceivers building blocks and recent development on optical wireless communication systems. We hope that this book will be useful for students, researchers and practitioners in their research studies.


Fundamentals of Mobile Data Networks

Fundamentals of Mobile Data Networks

Author: Guowang Miao

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1316539121

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This unique text provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the theory and practice of mobile data networks. Covering basic design principles as well as analytical tools for network performance evaluation, and with a focus on system-level resource management, you will learn how state-of-the-art network design can enable you flexibly and efficiently to manage and trade-off various resources such as spectrum, energy, and infrastructure investments. Topics covered range from traditional elements such as medium access, cell deployment, capacity, handover, and interference management, to more recent cutting-edge topics such as heterogeneous networks, energy and cost-efficient network design, and a detailed introduction to LTE (4G). Numerous worked examples and exercises illustrate the key theoretical concepts and help you put your knowledge into practice, making this an essential resource whether you are a student, researcher, or practicing engineer.


Communication Systems for the Mobile Information Society

Communication Systems for the Mobile Information Society

Author: Martin Sauter

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2006-07-11

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0470033207

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Many wireless systems like GSM, GPRS, UMTS, Bluetooth, WLAN or WiMAX offer possibilities to keep people connected while on the move. In this flood of technology and claims that one single resource will serve all our needs, this book seeks to enable readers to examine and understand each technology, and how to utilise several different systems for the best results. Communication Systems for the Mobile Information Society not only contains a technical description of the different wireless systems available today, but also explains the thoughts that are behind the different mechanisms and implementations; not only the 'how' but also the 'why' is in focus. Thus the advantages and also limitations of each technology become apparent. Provides readers with a solid introduction to major global wireless standards and compares the different wireless technologies and their applications Describes the different systems based on the standards, their practical implementation and the design assumptions that were made The performance and capacity of each system in practice is analyzed and explained, accompanied with practical tips on how to discover the functionality of different networks by the readers themselves Questions at the end of each chapter and answers on the accompanying website make this book ideal for self study or as course material Illustrated with many realistic examples of how mobile people can stay in touch with other people, the Internet and their corporate intranet This book is an essential resource for telecommunication engineers, professionals and computer science and electrical engineering students who want to get a thorough end-to-end understanding of the different technical concepts of the systems on the market today.