WCDMA: Towards IP Mobility and Mobile Internet

While covering the basics of wideband CDMA, this major revision of the best-selling Wideband CDMA for Third Generation Mobile Communications brings you up-to-date with all the latest developments in third generation mobile communications. New sections cover fundamental IP concepts, All-IP core networks, and the standardized radio access technologies WCDMA, EDGE and cdma2000, including their future developments - WCDMA HSPA and 1XEV.

While covering the basics of wideband CDMA, this major revision of the best-selling Wideband CDMA for Third Generation Mobile Communications brings you up-to-date with all the latest developments in third generation mobile communications. New sections cover fundamental IP concepts, All-IP core networks, and the standardized radio access technologies WCDMA, EDGE and cdma2000, including their future developments WCDMA HSPA and 1XEV.

This cutting-edge book gives you a complete understanding of the complex standardization environment of 3G networks and the design and development of 3G systems to help you achieve higher transfer speeds for video, mobile Internet and other applications. It describes how third generation system applications impact radio access system design and compares and contrasts major wideband CDMA standards: WCDMA, WCDMA TDD and cdma2000. Includes 190 illustrations and 75 equations that support major topics throughout the book.

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Reflecting swift technological changes, this reference is a revision of the two-year-old . It provides a comprehensive introduction to wideband CDMA and third-generation networks for managers, researchers, system designers, graduate students, and anyone involved in the field of mobile radio systems. It provides the technical background necessary to understand how wideband CDMA air interfaces are designed, including system requirements, applications, and radio environments, as well as a detailed treatment of technical solutions for spreading codes, coding, modulation, RAKE receiver, and soft handover. Also covers issues related to standardization and regulation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tero Ojanperä is vice president, research, standardization and technology at Nokia Networks. A member of the IEEE, he earned his M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland and his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands.

Ramjee Prasad is wireless information and multimedia chair and co-director of the Center for PersonKommunikation at Aalborg University. He is the author of CDMA for Wireless Personal Communications (Artech, 1996), Universal Wireless Personal Communications (Artech, 1998), co-author of OFDM for Wireless Personal Communications (Artech, 2000) and co-editor of Third Generation Mobile Communication Systems (Artech, 2000).