Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive and complete treatment of the fundamentals of mobile communications. Beginning with the theoretical foundations of mobile communications, the author then describes channel properties, basic concepts of cellular systems and their design, GSM, CDMA, wireless telephony, UMTS, and adaptive antennas.
Trade Review"...a good guide to current and future mobile communications systems..." (IEEE Communications Magazine, May 2002)
Table of ContentsPreface.
Elements of the theory of digital communication systems theory.
Overview and classification of mobile communication systems.
Characterization of the mobile communication channel.
Paging systems.
The cellular system concept.
First generation cellular telephony- NMT and AMPS examples.
GSM cellular telephony - architecture and system aspects.
GSM cellular telephony - physical layer.
Data transmission in GSM.
CDMA in mobile communication systems.
Description of IS-95 system.
Trunking systems.
Digital cordless telephony.
Wireless local loops.
Satellite mobile communication systems.
Wireless Local Area Networks.
Third generation mobile communication systems.
Application of smart antennas in ceullular telephony.
Index.
