| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A History of Wireless Technologies -- Where it all began--Marconi -- Packet Data -- Voice Technologies -- Cellular Technologies -- Understanding Spread Spectrum Technologies -- What Spread Spectrum Does -- How Spread Spectrum Works -- Frequency Hopping -- Direct Sequence -- Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum -- Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum -- Multiple Access Wireless Communications -- CDMA Overview -- Introduction to CDMA -- Principles of CDMA -- Common Air Interface -- Forward CDMA Channel -- Frequency Plan -- Transmission Parameters -- Overhead Channels -- Pilot Channel -- Sync Channel -- Paging Channel -- Traffic Channel -- Soft Handoff -- Rate -- Power Control Subchannel -- Timing -- Reverse CDMA Channel -- Frequency Plan -- Transmission Parameters -- Signal Structure -- Channelization -- Separation of Users -- Orthogonal Modulation -- Traffic Channel -- Soft Handoff -- Rate -- Timing -- TDMA -- TDMA Standards -- GSM -- The Mobile Station (MS) -- The Base Station Subsystem (BSS) -- The Base Transceiver Station (BTS) -- The Network Subsystem -- The Operation and Maintenance Center (OMC) -- Interfaces and Protecols -- Protecols -- The Air Interface -- Logical Channels on the Air Interface -- Traffic Channels on the Air Interface -- Signaling Channels on the Air Interface -- Burst Formats -- GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) for GSM -- Always Online -- Differences between GPRS/GSM and cdmaOne -- GSM -- cdmaOne IS-95 -- Analysis -- iMode -- What is iMode? -- What does a Typical iMode Screen look like? |
| Summary |
Wireless Technologies in general have been growing at a rate that out shadows the public advent of the Internet. Fueling the increased interest in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) is the relative and growing ease of availability of wireless Internet access for notebook computers, handhelds, such as the Palm and iPAQ's, and the increasingly common use of wireless networks in the home and office |
| Analysis |
Mobile wireless communications |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 215) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Data transmission systems -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Wireless communication systems -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0470849495 (alk. paper) |
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0470861347 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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0470861355 (electronic bk.) |
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9780470849491 (alk. paper) |
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9780470861349 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780470861356 (electronic bk.) |
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