PCs and Digital Cellular Technologies: Assessing Your Options (Prentice Hall Series in Computer Networking and Distributed Systems)

An up-to-date technical guide specifically designed to help communications professionals make critical decisions about wireless technologies.The book begins by reviewing the evolving markets for PCS and digital cellular service, and mapping wireless technologies by radio spectrum utilized, types of user traffic, cell size, achievable data rates and other important factors. The book then reviews important radio propagation and modulation techniques that must be understood to successfully design wireless networks. Next, it reviews the roles, advantages and disadvantages of every major cellular technology, from first-generation cellular to TDMA and CDMA digital solutions. The book also dedicates detailed chapters to GSM/DCS, cordless telephony and PCS, and mobile radio.This book is for telecommunications network planners and managers responsible for implementing and operating wireless networks; for engineers and engineering managers responsible for developing wireless and cellular products; and for managers in customer organizations considering wireless networking.