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Wireless Personal Communications

The Evolution of Personal Communications Systems

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Editors:
  1. Theodore S. Rappaport

    1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA

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  2. Brian D. Woerner

    1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA

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  3. Jeffrey H. Reed

    1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 424)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Wireless Networks and Services

    1. DID Trunks Via the Cellular System

      • Thomas F. Evans
      Pages 1-6

    2. 28 GHz Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS): Strengths and Challenges

      • Scott Y. Seidel, Hamilton W. Arnold
      Pages 7-17

    3. A Wireless Infrastructure to Support Research Activities

      • Alex Hills, Richard Hovey
      Pages 19-26

    4. A CDPD Performance Model for an Intelligent Transportation System Architecture Evaluation

      • Steven P. Arnold, Russell W. Taylor, Mark A. Wallace
      Pages 27-38

    5. Capacity of Channel Hopping Channel Stream On Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD)

      • Jay M. Jacobsmeyer
      Pages 39-50

    6. A CSMA/CA Protocol for Wireless Desktop Communications

      • Jim Lansford
      Pages 51-58

  3. Wireless Cdma

    1. CDMA Forward Link Capacity in a Flat Fading Channel

      • Louay M. A. Jalloul, Kamyar Rohani
      Pages 59-69

    2. The Effect of Directional Antennas in CDMA Wireless Local Loop Systems

      • Alper T. Erdogan, Ayman F. Naguib, Arogyaswami Paulraj
      Pages 71-79

    3. Decision-Directed Coherent Delay-Locked PN Tracking Loop for DS-CDMA

      • M. Sawahashi, F. Adachi
      Pages 81-88

  4. Antennas, Propagation and System Design

    1. Adaptive Beamforming for Wireless Communications

      • J. Litva, A. Sandhu, K. Cho, T. Lo
      Pages 89-94

    2. PCS System Design Issues in the Presence of Microwave OFS

      • Thomas T. Tran, Solyman Ashrafi, A. Richard Burke
      Pages 95-110

    3. An Evaluation Point Culling Algorithm for Radio Propagation Simulation based on the Imaging Method

      • Satoshi Takahashi, Kazuhito Ishida, Hiroshi Yoshiura, Arata Nakagoshi
      Pages 111-121

    4. Space vs. Polarization Diversity Gain in 2 GHz PCS 1900

      • Paul Donaldson, Robert Ferguson, Eric Kmiec, Robert Voss
      Pages 123-134

    5. Minimization of Outage Probability in Cellular Communication Systems by Antenna Beam Tilting

      • Josef Fuhl, Andreas F. Molisch
      Pages 135-146

    6. Performance of RSS-, SIR-based Handoff and Soft Handoff in Microcellular Environments

      • Per-Erik Östling
      Pages 147-158

  5. Simulation, Modulation and Equalization for Wireless Communications

    1. On the Use of Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimation for Establishing Hidden Markov Models

      • William H. Tranter, Otto H. Lee
      Pages 159-170

    2. On the Performance of 4-Phase Sequences in Asynchronous CDMA Systems

      • Mark D. Burroughs, Stephen G. Wilson
      Pages 171-182

    3. Adaptive MLSE equalization forms for wireless communications

      • Gregory E. Bottomley, Sandeep Chennakeshu
      Pages 183-194

    4. Simulation of RBDS AM Subcarrier Modulation Techniques to Determine BER and Audio Quality

      • Shaheen Saroor, Robert Kubichek, Jim Schroeder, Jim Lansford
      Pages 195-199
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Wireless Personal Communications

  • Book Subtitle: The Evolution of Personal Communications Systems

  • Editors: Theodore S. Rappaport, Brian D. Woerner, Jeffrey H. Reed

  • Series Title: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5491-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8017-7Published: 31 October 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7509-8Published: 11 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5491-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0893-3405

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 216

  • Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Electrical Engineering

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