Principles of Mobile Communication

Preface. 1. Introduction: Wireless Systems and Standards; Frequency Reuse and the Cellular Concept; Mobile Radio Propagation Environment; Co-channel Interference and Noise; Receiver Sensitivity and Link Budget; Coverage; Spectral Efficiency and Capacity. 2. Propagation Modeling: Frequency-Non-Selective (Flat) Multipath-Fading; Frequency-Selective Multipath-Fading; Laboratory Simulation of Multipath-Fading Channels; Shadowing; Path Loss Models. 3. Co-Channel Interference: Multiple Log-normal Interferers; Probability of Outage; Multiple Ricean-Rayleigh Interferers; Multiple Log-normal Nakagami Interferers; Multiple Log-normal Ricean-Rayleigh Interferers. 4. Modulated Signals and Their Power Spectra: Representation of Band-pass Modulated Signals; Nyquist Pulse Shaping; Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM); Phase Shift Keying (PSK); Orthogonal Modulation and Variants; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexng (OFDM); Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM); Partial Response CPM); Power Spectral Densities of Digitally Modulated Signals. 5. Digital Signaling on Flat Fading Channels: Vector Space Representation of Received Signals; Detection of Known Signals in Additive White Gaussian Noise; Probability of Error; Error Probability of PSK; Error Probability of M-QAM; Error Probability of Orthogonal Signals; Error Probability of OFDM; Error Probability of MSK; Differential Detection; Non-coherent Detection; Detection of CPM Signals. 6. Antenna Diversity: Diversity Combining; Selective Combining; Maximal Ratio Combining; Equal Gain Combining; Switched Combining; Differential Detection with Equal Gain Combining; Transmitter Diversity. 7. Equalization and Interference Cancellation: Overview; Modeling of ISI Channels; Optimum Receiver for ISI Channels withAWGN; Symbol-by-Symbol Equalizers; Sequence Estimation; Error Probability for MLSE on ISI Channels; Error Probability for T/2-spaced MLSE Receiver; MIMO MLSE Receivers. 8. Error Control Coding: Block Codes; Convolutional Codes; Trellis Coded Modulation; Coded Performance on AWGN Channels; Coded Performance on Interleaved Flat Fading Channels; Coded Performance on ISI Channels; Turbo Codes. 9. Spread Spectrum Techniques: Basic Principles of Spread Spectrum; Spreading Sequences; Power Spectral Density of DS Spread Spectrum Signals; Performance of DS/QPSK in Tone Interference; DS Spread Spectrum on Frequency-Selective Fading Channels; Error Probability for DS CDMA on AWGN Channels. 10. TDMA Cellular Architectures: Cell Sectoring; Conventional Cell Splitting; Cluster Planned Hierarchical Architectures; Macrodiversity Architectures. 11. CDMA Cellular Architectures: Capacity of Cellular CDMA; Error Probability with RAKE Reception. 12. Link Quality Measurement and Handoff Initiation: Signal Strength Based Hard Handoff Algorithms; Pilot-to-Interference Ratio Based Soft Handoff Algorithms; Signal Strength Averaging; Velocity Estimation in Cellular Systems; Velocity Adaptive Handoff Algorithms; Hard Handoff Analysis; Soft Handoff Analysis; CIR-based Link Quality Measurements; Summary. 13. Channel Assignment Techniques: Centralized DCA; Decentralized DCA; Fully Decentralized DCA; Hybrid FCA/DCA Schemes; Borrowing Schemes; Directed Retry and Directed Handoff; Moving Direction Strategies; Reduced Transceiver Coverage; Handoff Priority; Example DCA Schemes for TDMA Systems; Concluding Remarks. Appendix: Probability and Random Processes. References. Index.