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Addresses the problem of resource allocation in mobile cellular networks & presents resource allocation strategies (RAS) for operation in Universal Mobile Telecommunications systems formed of Hierarchical Cellular structures.

Based on the author's extensive research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, this authoritative resource offers an in-depth description of adaptive array design, emphasizing the RF characteristics, mutual coupling among elements, and field testing methods. It provides you with proven techniques for challenging projects involving radar, communication systems and antenna design. For the first time in any book, you find design guidance on specialized types of arrays, using monopole radiating elements, slotted cylinders and ultrawideband dipoles.

Although a promising new technology, the ATM standard has certain limitations for implementation into commercial products. This unique book offers a realistic, in-depth evaluation of what the new generation of high-speed switches can and cannot deliver.

This manual applies knowledge of wireless cellular communications to real-world situations that wireless technicians encounter every day. From dBm versus Watts, the difference between analogue, TDMA and CDMA, and testing of handsets and base stations, the book covers all first-tier formats. It seeks to provide a basic understanding of the electronic principles as well as a sound foundation of wireless communications principles, including analogue and digital concepts. The book focuses on testing concepts and procedures, and types of testing equipment, including spectrum analyzers and power meters and their applications; reviews AMPS, CDMA, IS-136, and GSM; includes charts that technicians refer to daily and screen shots from common test instruments; and surveys common problems with cellular and PCS networks and handsets.

A summary of applications and developments impacting smart sensors, updated to reflect IEEE 1451.2 smart sensor standards. Utilizing information in smart sensor, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and microelectronic research and development, it seeks to provide the technical and practical information needed to keep designs and products on the cutting edge. It also reviews how advances in fuzzy logic and neural networks continue to determine the direction of smart sensor development. This work combines information on micromachining and microelectronics, two important aspects of smart sensor technology.

Next Generation Intelligent Networks investigates how service creation is taking on board state-of-the-art distributed object-oriented programming techniques. The book focuses on emerging software architectures for programming and deploying value-added services, and proposes a vision of value-added services in the network of the future. Learn how new initiatives such as Soft switches, JAIN, Parlay, OSA, TINA and CAMEL help you to more effectively handle the new challenges brought on by the rapid growth of cellular mobile networks and the Internet.

Provides a one stop resource for designing and engineering coded transmissions for reliable digital communications. Contains the latest practical information available on error-control block coding and decoding, and their application to such real-world technologies as space and mobile communications and compact discs.