Rifaat A. Dayem, Cupertino, California

Published April, 1997 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1997, 256 pp.
Cloth
ISBN 0-13-616574-5
$57.00

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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.



The first comprehensive comparison of PCS and digital cellular technologies aimed at computer networking professionals.

• By a leading expert in wireless networking.

• Includes a detailed critical comparison of TDMA and CDMA.

• Part of Prentice Hall Series in Computer Networking and Distributed Systems, Radia Perlman, Series Editor.