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Overview
How to grow a service provider's wireless network and make it perform as reliably and cost-efficiently as a wired one.Synopsis
OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE, NOT COST
Delivering increased wireless network performance on a limited capital budget is a complex task, but it can be done. This practical, in-depth engineering guide can help you make the most of your existing network without having to purchase expensive new equipment. BUILD NETWORKS THAT DELIVER PERFORMANCE YOU'LL BE PROUD OF—AND GET READY FOR 3G This unique resource is organized to help you solve today's difficult wireless challenges. Wireless Network Performance Handbook provides the salient information network engineers and managers must have to stay competitive in a fast-moving, cost-conscious field, and to ready their networks for 3G mobile data and services. WIRELESS NETWORK ESSENTIALS: COST-CUTTERS, TIME-SAVERS (AND FACE-SAVERS) With your firm's revenue and reputation depending on network performance, it makes sense to get the best advice available. Wireless Network Performance Handbook helps you:* Use ready-made, detailed solutions for platforms now in use
* Increase your network's performance without buying expensive new equipment
* Apply rules of thumb to quickly avoid costly gaffs
* Find engineering answers for difficult problems such as prepaid services and roamer validation
* Make the hard choices in network design with confidence and foresight
* Design and expand for full support of 3G services
* Reduce the hassle in scaleup and optimization
* Troubleshoot without tears THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO STATE-OF-THE-ART WIRELESS NETWORK PERFORMANCE
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewIf you are a wireless professional and your goal is to optimize your network's performance -- using nothing but your own engineering skill -- you must read this outstanding book. It is a rich source of technical information, vicarious experience, and troubleshooting examples. Authors Clint Smith and Curt Gervelis do an excellent job of thoroughly covering the complexities of the rapidly evolving wireless industry by addressing five wireless platforms. This is a down-to-earth and well-written guide for the design, implementation, and performance analysis of wireless networks in this wide-open field.
For example, Chapter 1 provides a great background in quality concepts for the business model. Chapter 2 addresses topics basic to radio frequency engineering. Next, Chapter 3 focuses on the different wireless mobile technologies, including Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS), interface standard-136 (IS-136), Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), interface standard-95 (IS-95), Code Division Multiple Access2000 (CDMA2000), integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) and Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD). Chapter 4 discusses the Radio Frequency (RF) engineering design guidelines for AMPS, IS-136, GSM/GPRS, CDMA and iDEN. The performance aspects of a RF system and a network are covered in Chapters 5 and 6. Chapter 7 covers billing systems and their interaction with wireless mobile. Next, Chapter 8 focuses on revenue assurance. Chapter 9 addresses the important issue of which reports should be generated, how often, and who should be the recipient of each. The methods and procedures needed to put together a network growth plan (specifically, what should be included, where you get the information, and how to actually do it, with a few examples) are covered in Chapter 10. Chapter 11 focuses on organization and training for an engineering department.
There is so much to learn from this in-depth work on the subject of wireless network performance. In fact, you will want to keep this handbook on your desk as a ready guide for your next project and the one after that. John Vacca
John Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written 38 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.