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The appendices (39 pages) give supplementary information on: queuing systems for traffic performance analysis, standards and recommendations of ISO, ITU, IEC, INTELSAT/INMARSAT, ATM Forum, CEN/CENELEC, CEPT, ETSI, ECMA, EBU, EUTELSAT, ESA and others. International Frequency Allocations, The Frequencies of European Mobile Radio Systems, The GSM Standard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The appendices (39 pages) give supplementary information on: queuing systems for traffic performance analysis, standards and recommendations of ISO, ITU, IEC, INTELSAT/INMARSAT, ATM Forum, CEN/CENELEC, CEPT, ETSI, ECMA, EBU, EUTELSAT, ESA and others. International Frequency Allocations, The Frequencies of European Mobile Radio Systems, The GSM Standard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The appendices (39 pages) give supplementary information on: queuing systems for traffic performance analysis, standards and recommendations of ISO, ITU, IEC, INTELSAT/INMARSAT, ATM Forum, CEN/CENELEC, CEPT, ETSI, ECMA, EBU, EUTELSAT, ESA and others. International Frequency Allocations, The Frequencies of European Mobile Radio Systems, The GSM Standard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The appendices (39 pages) give supplementary information on: queuing systems for traffic performance analysis,standards and recommendations of ISO, ITU, IEC, INTELSAT/INMARSAT, ATM Forum, CEN/CENELEC, CEPT, ETSI, ECMA, EBU, EUTELSAT, ESA and others. International Frequency Allocations, The Frequencies of European Mobile Radio Systems, The GSM Standard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Introduction (26 pages) reviews the existing and forthcoming radio systems and addresses GSM900/1800, DECT, fixed wireless access, wireless local area networks (IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN/1), UMTS, wireless broadband according to ETSI/BRAN, mobile satellites and universal personal mobility. Comprehensive tables are used to compare the systems with respect to their characteristic parameters. Intelligent adaptive antennas, dynamic channel allocation, self-organization of systems and electromagnetic environmental compatibility are discussed and a brief historical evolution of mobile radio systems is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 10 (8 pages) describes the characteristics of wireless local loop systems also called fixed wireless access systems. Technologies for WLL Systems based on cellular mobile radio networks and digital point-to-multipoint systems are being introduced. Different WLL scenarios and their importance for bypassing the local loop of telecommunication networks are highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 11 (26 pages) introduces the Personal Handyphone System (PHS) as the standard cordless system introduced in Japan. A system overview with description of the personal and cell stations is given and the PHS radio characteristics are given. Speech coding, modulation, the air interface with slot and channel structure, the frequency spectrum allocation and micro-cellular architecture are given. Handover, radio channel structures, logical control channels and service channels and network operations are highlighted. The radio frequency transmission management and mobility management with its call control protocol and the network interfaces/technologies and the applicability for public and private usage including the wireless local loop usage conclude the presentation of PHS. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 12 (38 pages) presents the forthcoming Wireless Broadband Systems based on wireless ATM technology resulting from the European research projects in that domain that formed the basis of a system now known as HiperLAN/2. The roles of the ATM Forum and of ETSI in the Standardization of W-ATM systems is explained and the services of broadband ISDN networks based on ATM technology are described. W-ATM systems have been designed to extent fixed network services with the same quality of service to the wireless and mobile user. Basics of ATM like classes of services and functions and protocols of the ATM adaptation layer, are explained and the architecture of an ATM radio interface introduced. Frequency etiquettes are addressed and the architecture of a W-ATM system with its protocol stack for channel access, logical link control and dynamic capacity allocation are described. The need of a channel concept for a packet radio based air interface and the dynamic channel selection for W-LANs are described together with mobility supporting functions like radio and network handover. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 13 (60 pages) introduces two types of Wireless Local Area Networks (W-LAN)s, namely HiperLAN/1 and IEEE 802.11. HiperLAN Type 1 was the European approach to enable wireless broadband access for movable terminals that led to an ETSI standard in 1998. The network environments for HiperLAN/1, its reference model, physical and MAC sublayers and parameters are described. Special emphasis is on details of the packet based air interface access protocols with its ability to avoid access collisions and apply priorities for the channel access. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 2 (93 pages) explains the fundamentals of radio transmission like attenuation of radio waves, propagation over flat terrain, multi-path fading, statistics of the transmission channel, reflection, diffraction, RMS delay spread, shadowing, interference caused by other systems. Models to calculate the radio field, namely empirical models and diffraction models, ray tracing techniques and the famous Okumura/Hata model are introduced. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 3 (179 pages) describes the GSM system with emphasis on the architecture of its subsystems and protocols. The air-interface, frequency hopping, logical channels, the hierarchy of frame structures and channel combinations used in a cell are described. The physical layer with its coding and interleaving for speech and data and the synchronisation methods used is explained. The signalling protocols in the data link layer are addressed by means of the frame types defined and the timing relations to layer 1 are explained. The connection management of the network layer and the services of the radio resource management are introduced. GSM handover is presented in very detail by means of its procedures, parameters and the example algorithms proposed in the standard. Location update, roaming support and numbering are addressed. Data transmission and rate-adaptation functions are studied in the context of the radio link protocol. Existent and future voice and data services are introduced like the Advanced Speech Call Items, the High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data Service and the General Packet Radio Service. The description of the interworking to public networks and of the security functions contained in GSM conclude the chapter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 5 is devoted to IMT 2000 and UMTS with emphasis on the services specific loads expected and the respective frequency spectrum needed. Basics are given on the wideband CDMA radio interface, the terrestrial radio access network's logical architecture for FDD and TDD modes of operation and handover procedures according to the status of standardization at end 1998. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 9 (124 pages) describes the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) system. Possible application areas of DECT, The logical and physical grouping of DECT systems, the DECT Authentication Module (DAM), the DECT Reference Model, services and protocols of the physical, medium access control, data link and network layers are described together with the management of the lower layers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents an index to the January 2002 issue of the journal "Mobile Radio Networks: Networking and Protocols."

The appendices (39 pages) give supplementary information on: queuing systems for traffic performance analysis, standards and recommendations of ISO, ITU, IEC, INTELSAT/INMARSAT, ATM Forum, CEN/CENELEC, CEPT, ETSI, ECMA, EBU, EUTELSAT, ESA and others. International Frequency Allocations, The Frequencies of European Mobile Radio Systems, The GSM Standard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]