Principles and Applications of GSM

Description

The complete guide to designing wireless systems with GSM – the hottest mobile technology on Earth.

The book presents fundamental concepts providing a foundation for understanding the technical aspects of speech and channel coding, modulation, propagation, and other items which are used for GSM and common with its derivative. It provides sufficient details so that the reader can understand the related wireless standards. Also, it allows the reader to apply the concepts to practical wireless systems.

Key Features

• Soup to nuts coverage: GSM architecture, interfaces, radio links, logical channels, coding, and much more.
• Planning, design, traffic engineering and network management.
• Wireless data, low mobility adjuncts, and future GSM enhancements.

Table of Contents

1. An Overview of Wireless Communications Systems.
2. Standards for Wireless Communications Systems.
3. Access Technologies.
4. Cellular Communications Fundamentals.
5. GSM Architecture and Interfaces.
6. Radio Link Features in GSM Systems.
7. GSM Logical Channels and Frame Structure.
8. Speech Coding in GSM.
9. Messages, Services, and Call Flows in GSM.
10. Data Services in GSM.
11. Privacy and Security in GSM.
12. Modulation and Demodulation.
13. Propagation Path Loss and Propagation Models.
14. Planning and Design of a GSM Wireless Network.
15. Management of GSM Networks.
16. Low-Mobility Adjunct to GSM.
17. An Overview of Signaling System.
18. Telecommunication Traffic Engineering.
19. Comparison of TDMA Systems for Cellular/PCS.
20. Future Wireless Services.

Authors Biography

Vijay K. Garg is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories). His responsibilities include design of GSM-based systems, evaluation of the performance. and capacity of mobile switching centers, and specification of operations system requirements for wireless networks.

Joseph E. Wilkes was on the team that designed the worlds first cellular system, and is principal author of the original EIA compatibility specification for cellular telephones. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Bellcore.