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The final report of the COST 259 project that explored radio system aspects for flexible personalized communication capable of delivering different services on different bandwidths, and new modeling techniques and related planning tools for ensuring the continuity of services delivered by networks of widely different capabilities and structures across a number of different environments. The first of the three chapters deals with radio systems aspects of future wireless communications systems, focusing primarily on physical layer issues. Smart antennas, propagation modeling and spatial channel models are then addressed. The final chapter considers network aspects, with an eye to the initial standardization of the UMTS/IMT2000 and improvement of existing second generation systems.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Review
"The final report of the COST 259 project that explored radio system aspect for flexible personalized communication capable of delivering...services on different bandwidths...new modeling techniques...related planing tools...across a number of different environments." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 3, September 2001)


Book Description
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of new operators and customers of cellular mobile communications and the importance of wireless/mobile communications in today's telecommunications industry is indisputable.
The Final Report of COST 259, 'Wireless Flexible Personalised Communications' is the result of extensive work, performed by more than 200 European researchers from more than 90 institutions (universities and companies) in the area of mobile radio.
Provides a discussion on the evolution of wireless/mobile communications focusing on the use of data and multimedia, and consequently broadband communications Examines the radio systems aspects of future wireless communication systems, concentrating primarily on physical layer issues and including assessments of OFDM and CDMA Presents radio propagation and adaptive antennas, and provides a thorough understanding of the mobile radio channel Discusses the radio network aspects for the improvement and optimisation of the existing 2G systems and the planning of UMTS/IMT2000 Explains the design and implementation of UMTS and new techniques for future wireless broadband communication systems Due to the broad and comprehensive range of topics covered in this book it will appeal not only to engineers working within the GSM industry but also to those involved in UMTS and to researchers working on the next generation of mobile systems.


Book Info
A report on the results of COST 259, a European project which researched the wireless and mobile communications market. Covers a broad spectrum of topics related to wireless flexible personalized communications, making it appealing to engineers in the GSM industry as well as those working in UMTS. DLC: Personal communication service systems--Standards--Europe.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Mobile Communications are evolving from second generation systems towards a third generation, capable of accommodating a variety of services in different environments at various bit rates. Communications are becoming increasingly flexible, to account for the progressive migration towards third generation systems (UMTS) and their merging into fourth generation systems, and personalised due to the unique opportunities offered by emerging radio communication technologies.

COST is a European forum for co-operative scientific research. COST action 259 in the field of telecommunications involves 250 researchers in 15 technical areas from 80 organisations in 18 countries, covering both academia and industry. The aim of COST Action 259 was to increase the knowledge of radio system aspects for flexible personalised communications which are capable of delivering different services and exploiting different bandwidths. The objective was also to develop new modelling techniques and related planning tools, in order to guarantee continuity (and quality) of services, delivered by networks of widely different capabilities and structures, across a number of different environments. Furthermore, in the perspective of a fast evolving demand for interfacing the photonic (glassfibre) network with the wireless network, investigations on the mutual interactions were also carried

Provides excellent insight into the evolution of second generation systems to third and beyond

Written by leading european researchers throughout academia and industry, including Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Bosch Telecom and Telefonica

Presents the latest research in mobile communications in the three key areasof radio systems aspects, antennas and propagation and networks aspects

This text offers the cutting edge of wireless communications, and is essential reading for researchers, and engineers in the industry, as well as offering up to date background reading for students of this rapidly evolving topic.

SYNOPSIS

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of new operators and customers of cellular mobile communications and the importance of wireless/mobile communications in today's telecommunications industry is indisputable. The Final Report of COST 259, Wireless Flexible Personalised Communications is the result of extensive work, performed by more than 200 European researchers from more than 90 institutions (universities and companies) in the area of mobile radio. Provides a discussion on the evolution of wireless/mobile communications focusing on the use of data and multimedia, and consequently broadband communications Examines the radio systems aspects of future wireless communication systems, concentrating primarily on physical layer issues and including assessments of OFDM and CDMA Presents radio propagation and adaptive antennas, and provides a thorough understanding of the mobile radio channel Discusses the radio network aspects for the improvement and optimisation of the existing 2G systems and the planning of UMTS/IMT2000 Explains the design and implementation of UMTS and new techniques for future wireless broadband communication systems Due to the broad and comprehensive range of topics covered in this book it will appeal not only to engineers working within the GSM industry but also to those involved in UMTS and to researchers working on the next generation of mobile systems.

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