The complete wireless communications professional : a guide for engineers and managers

 Content: Preface: What is a complete wireless professional? --
 Format of this book --
 Some interesting history --
 Early history --
 Some key milestones in mobile radio history --
 Recent history --
 Mobile radio systems --
 The basics of mobile radio --
 Basic principles of propagation --
 Radio spectrum utilization --
 Basic system design --
 System overview --
 Voice encoding --
 Secure transmission --
 Overcoming channel imperfections --
 Frequency and phase modulation --
 Clock recovery --
 Carrier recovery --
 Multiple access --
 Packet and circuit transmission --
 Theoretical capacity of mobile radio systems --
 Cellular radio technologies --
 The range of cellular systems --
 GSM --
 System architecture --
 Locating a subscriber and starting calls --
 Transmission within GSM --
 cdmaOne --
 Other systems --
 Private mobile radio systems --
 Simple private radio systems --
 Tetra --
 System operation --
 Technical parameters --
 Other systems --
 Other mobile radio systems --
 Cordless systems --
 Overview of cordless telephony --
 Digital enhanced cordless telephone --
 Personal handiphone system --
 Wireless local loop systems --
 Introduction to wireless local loop --
 Access technologies: radio and cable --
 WLL and cellular: the differences --
 Technologies for WLL and LMDS/MVDS --
 Satellite systems for telephony --
 Concept --
 Economics of satellite systems --
 TV, radio, and other systems --
 Interfacing with fixed networks --
 The need for fixed networks --
 Fixed network architectures --
 Fixed network protocols --
 Fixed mobile convergence.