Mobile Telecommunications
Standards, Regulation, and Applications
Published on 30. November 1998
Book
Hardback
492 pages
978-0-89006-806-9 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive overview brings the reader up-to-date on new technologies for low-speed data, speech and broadband communications, competing standards, adjacent technologies, new generation networks and future developments. It covers all EU countries, Norway, Switzerland, the USA and Japan. The text includes up-to-date discussions on standards such as TETRA/Tetrapol, POGSAC/ERMES/FLEX and W-CDMA, several adjacent technologies such as VSAT, (d-)GSP and DAB broadcasting, and US and Japanese standards such as IS-95, CDMA, D-AMPS, FLEX/ReFlex and PDC.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Norwood
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
1, black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89006-806-9 (9780890068069)
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Persons
Rudi Bekkers is a researcher at Tilburg University and Eindhoven University of Technology, and a strategy and technology analyst at RAM Mobile Data in Maarssen. He holds an M.S. in technology and society from Eindhoven University of Technology where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. Jan Smits is an independent telecommunications consultant and a professor of law and technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. He holds a masters (LL.M.) from Tilburg University and a Ph D in Law from Utrecht University in 1990.
Content
Methods of Telecommunications. The Development of Mobile Communications Systems. Policy and Regulations. Structure of Radio Communications Systems. Techniques in Radiocommunications. Cellular Telephony. Mobile Radio Networks. Packet-Switched Mobile Data Communications. Personal Satellite Communications. Cordless Telephony. Paging. Other Related Standards. Development, Policy and Network Implementation. Areas of Application. Selection and Implementation of a Mobile (Data) Communications System.