Wireless Personal Communications: The Evolution of Personal Communications Systems / Edition 1

by Theodore S. Rappaport, Brian D. Woerner, Jeffrey H. Reed

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792396765
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/31/1996
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #349
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

I Wireless Networks and Services.- 1. DID Trunks Via The Cellular System.- 2. 28 GHz Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS): Strengths and Challenges.- 3. A Wireless Infrastructure to Support Research Activities.- 4. A CDPD Performance Model for an Intelligent Transportation Systems Architecture Evaluation.- 5. Capacity of Channel Hopping Channel Stream On Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD).- 6. A CSMA/CA Prool for Wireless Desktop Communications.- II Wireless CDMA.- 7. CDMA Forward Link Capacity in a Flat Fading Channel.- 8. The Effect of Directional Antennas in CDMA Wireless Local Loop Systems.- 9. Decision-Directed Coherent Delay-Locked PN Tracking Loop for DS-CDMA.- III Antennas, Propagation and System Design.- 10. Adaptive Beamforming for Wireless Communications.- 11. PCS System Design Issues in the Presence of Microwave OFS.- 12. An Evaluation Point Culling Algorithm for Radio Propagation Simulation Based on the Imaging Method.- 13. Space vs. Polarization Diversity Gain in 2 GHz PCS 1900.- 14. Minimization of Outage Probability in Cellular Communication Systems by Antenna Beam Tilting.- 15. Performance of RSS-, SIR-based Handoff and Soft Handoff in Microcellular Environments.- IV. Simulation, Modulation and Equalization for Wireless Communications.- 16. On the Use of Signal-To-Noise Ratio Estimation for Establishing Hidden Markov Models.- 17. On the Performance of 4-Phase Sequences in Asynchronous CDMA Systems.- 18. Adaptive MLSE Equalization Forms for Wireless Communications.- 19. Simulation of RBDS AM Subcarrier Modulation Techniques to Determine BER and Audio Quality.- 20. Simulation of Reverse Channel of Narrowband PCS.

Editorial Reviews

Papers from the Fifth Virginia Tech Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications deal with aspects of wireless networks and services; code division multiple access; antennas and propagation; and simulation, modulation, and equalization for wireless links. Highlights include papers on a CDPD performance model for an intelligent transportation systems architecture evaluation; adaptive beamforming for wireless communications; and simulation of reverse channel of narrowband PCS. Can be used as a reference and as a text for advanced courses on wireless communications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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