Here's a comprehensive system-level treatment of the total realm of mobile radio communications - complete coverage of both the basic concepts and the systems themselves - to help you improve performance, increase productivity, and save time. Part One, Basic Concepts, gives you a concise introduction to the main topics and techniques involved in mobile radio systems. You can brush up on classic areas such as propagation and signal processing, and get up to speed on more recent techniques and concepts such as security, planning, and mobility management. In Part Two, The Systems, you take an inside look at all categories of terrestrial mobile radio systems. Again you cover both traditional topics such as cellular and cordless systems, and more recent focuses such as mobile radio communications systems, paging, or radio data network systems. In fact, all recent standards are dealt with: TETRA, DECT, PACS, PHS, GSM, IS-95, PDC, CDPD, IEEE 802.11, and HYPERLAN. The ideal reference for mobile communications engineers, researchers, and postgraduates alike, this is the guide to turn to for a truly global overview of the field. In it you see clearly how to: Link budget calculations; Determine the impact of mobility signaling on the network signaling load; Design handover procedures; Plan for cellular and capacity increases; A first-of-its-kind resource, Handbook of Mobile Radio Networks lets you gain sharper insights into virtually all of today's rapidly-changing mobile radio systems security, planning, and mobility issues.
Introduction: History and Development. Differences Between Fixed Networks and Mobile Networks. Management of the Spectrum and Standardisation. Contents of the Book. Propagation in the Mobile Radio Environment: Basic Elements of the Antennas. Mobile Radio Propagation. Interferences and Noise. Propagation Prediction Models. Access - Radio Channels Definition and Access to the Resources: Multiple Access Methods. Random Access Protocol. Protections and Strategies Against Transmission Problems: Mechanisms Implemented in the Transmission System. Diversity Techniques. Adaptive Antennas. Security: Definitions and General Problematics. Confidentiality Problems. Protection Methods. Examples. Resource Management in Cellular Systems: Historical. The Cellular Concept. Intrinsic System Capacity and Increase of the Network Quality. Cellular System Basic Architecture. Cellular Planning: Cellular Planning Elements. Evaluation Elements of the Traffic Dimensioning. Planning Stages of a Cellular Network. System Tuning: The GSM BSS Example. Increasing the Capacity of a Cellular Network. Conclusion. Mobility: Management of Radio Mobility: The Handover Procedure. Network Mobility: Cell Selection and Roaming. Conclusions. Part Two: Terrestrial Mobile-Radio Communications Systems. Professional Mobile Radiocommunications: Historic and General Background. Services Offered by PMRS. The Conventional-Pattern PMRS Networks. The Trunk Radio Networks. State of Progress of the PMRS. Cordless Systems and Applications: Basic Principles and Applications. Examples of Cordless Systems. Conclusions. Paging Systems: Concepts and Basic Principles. Examples of One-Way Paging Systems. Cellular Systems: First Generation Systems. Second Generation Systems. Conclusions. Wireless Data Networks: Wireless Local Area Networks. Wide Area Wireless Data Networks. Conclusions. The Future. Bibliography. Annexes. Index.
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Sami Tabbane
Sami Tabbane is Professor and Director of Studies at Ecole Superieure des Communications de Tunis. He is a member of the IEEE and the Association des Anciens Eleves de L'Ecole des Mines de Paris. His recent research activities have focused on mobility management in cellular systems, cellular systems planning and engineering issues, and macrodiversity methods. He received his Ph.D. in Networks and Computer Science from the Ecole Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris.