Wireless Personal Communications: The Evolution of Personal Communications Systems: 424 (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 424) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792380177 ISBN 13: 9780792380177

Publisher: Springer, 1997

Synopsis

Wireless personal communications, or wireless as it is now being called, has arrived. The hype is starting to fade, and the hard work of deploying new systems and services for personal communications is underway. In the United States, the FCC propelled the wireless era from infancy to mainstream with a $7.7 billion auction of 60 MHz of radio spectrum in the 180011900 MHz band. With the largest single sale of public property in the history of mankind mostly complete, the resources of the entire world are being called upon to develop inexpensive, rapidly deployable wireless systems and sub­ scriber units for an industry that is adding s\lbscribers at greater than 50% annual rate. This growth is commonplace for wireless service companies throughout the world, and in the U.S., where as many as 7 licensed wireless service providers may be competing for cellularlPCS customers within the next couple of years, differentiators in cost, qual­ ity, service, and coverage will become critical to customer acceptance and use. Many of these issues are discussed in the papers included in this book.

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Synopsis

"Wireless Personal Communications: Improving Capacity, Services and Reliability" presents a broad range of topics in wireless communications, including perspectives from both industry and academia. The book serves as a reflection of current research thrusts in wireless communications, an area which continues to grow at a rapid rate as the industry strives to provide a wider range of services with greater reliability and at lower cost. "Wireless Personal Communications: Improving Capacity, Services and Reliability" is organized into four sections.Section I focuses on propagation and smart antennas with emphasis on measurements, modelling and simulation. Section 2 is devoted to the important subject of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems with coverage of bit error rate calculations, interference cancellation, frequency estimators and acquisition schemes. Section 3 covers networking and multiple-access issues such as mobility tracking, Markov analysis of random access protocols, and the design and development of a prototype system to access Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites.

Section 4 presents software radio technologies, including wideband software-definable base station technology, space-borne processing technology for mobile communications systems, filter design, universal cordless telephone transceivers using DSP, a method for predicting nonlinearities for an RF power amplifier, MAP symbol detection of CPM bursts, and unification of MLSE receivers."Wireless Personal Communications: Improving Capacity, Services and Reliability serves" as an excellent reference source and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792380177
• ISBN 13: 9780792380177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 229
• Editor: Rappaport Theodore S., Woerner Brian D., Reed Jeffrey H., Tranter William H.