| Preface | p. XI |
| Mobile Communications Systems and Technologies | |
| Multiple Access Techniques for Wireless Systems | p. 1 |
| Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) | p. 2 |
| Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) | p. 2 |
| Resource reuse with TDMA and FDMA | p. 4 |
| Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) | p. 8 |
| DS-CDMA spreading process | p. 11 |
| Basic considerations on the capacity of DS-CDMA systems | p. 13 |
| The Global System for Mobile Communications | p. 17 |
| Introduction to GSM | p. 17 |
| Base station sub-system | p. 17 |
| Network sub-system | p. 18 |
| GSM standard evolution | p. 20 |
| GPRS network architecture | p. 22 |
| GSM-GPRS air interface: details on physical layer | p. 25 |
| EDGE and E-GPRS | p. 29 |
| Radio resource management concepts | p. 30 |
| QoS issues in the GPRS system | p. 34 |
| GPRS typical procedures | p. 38 |
| GPRS tunneling protocol architecture | p. 40 |
| GPRS protocol stack | p. 42 |
| GPRS services | p. 43 |
| 3G Mobile Systems | p. 45 |
| UMTS traffic classes | p. 52 |
| UMTS architecture description | p. 55 |
| UTRAN resources | p. 65 |
| UMTS air interface: characteristics of the physical layer | p. 68 |
| UTRA-FDD physical layer characteristics | p. 69 |
| Mapping of transport channels onto physical channels | p. 80 |
| UTRA-TDD physical layer characteristics | p. 81 |
| Voice service in UMTS | p. 82 |
| New service concepts supported by UMTS | p. 83 |
| UMTS releases differences | p. 85 |
| Release '99 | p. 85 |
| Release 4 | p. 86 |
| Release 5 | p. 87 |
| Satellite Communications | p. 91 |
| Basic considerations on satellite communications | p. 93 |
| Satellite orbit types | p. 93 |
| Frequency bands and signal attenuation | p. 101 |
| Satellite network telecommunication architectures | p. 102 |
| Different types of mobile satellite systems | p. 103 |
| Satellite UMTS | p. 104 |
| Future satellite system protocols for high-capacity transmissions | p. 106 |
| Overview of proposed mobile satellite systems | p. 107 |
| Mobile Communications Beyond 3G | p. 115 |
| Review on new access technologies | p. 120 |
| 4G view from EU research projects | p. 123 |
| Scheduling Techniques, Access Schemes and Mobile Internet Protocols for Wireless Communication Systems | |
| General Concepts on Radio Resource Management | p. 127 |
| Traffic Models | p. 135 |
| Voice sources | p. 135 |
| Video sources | p. 136 |
| Web browsing sources | p. 139 |
| Self-Similar traffic sources | p. 143 |
| Data traffic sources | p. 146 |
| Channel models | p. 147 |
| RRM in GPRS | p. 151 |
| Description of layer 2 protocols of GPRS | p. 151 |
| Medium access modes | p. 152 |
| Terminal states and transfer modes | p. 153 |
| Access techniques | p. 154 |
| P-persistent access procedure | p. 155 |
| One- and two-phase access procedures | p. 156 |
| Queuing and polling procedures | p. 156 |
| Paging procedure | p. 157 |
| A detailed example of a one-phase access procedure | p. 157 |
| GPRS performance evaluation | p. 160 |
| RRM in WCDMA | p. 165 |
| Adopted models | p. 169 |
| Detailed description of the proposed RRM scheme | p. 170 |
| Simulation results | p. 172 |
| RRM in UTRA-TDD | p. 175 |
| Radio interface protocol architecture: details | p. 176 |
| Transport and physical channels | p. 177 |
| Spreading for downlink and uplink physical channels | p. 180 |
| Multiplexing, channel coding and interleaving | p. 183 |
| MAC layer | p. 183 |
| MAC services and functions | p. 187 |
| RLC services and functions | p. 188 |
| Resource management for DSCH | p. 190 |
| Resource allocation and UE identification on DSCH | p. 192 |
| DSCH model in UTRAN | p. 192 |
| Performance evaluation for packet traffic over UTRA-TDD | p. 193 |
| Study assumptions | p. 196 |
| The proposed RRM scheme | p. 200 |
| Simulation results | p. 201 |
| RRM in Wireless Microcellular Systems | p. 205 |
| ATB-P protocol description | p. 207 |
| ATB-P performance evaluation | p. 211 |
| RRM in LEO-MSSs | p. 217 |
| The classical PRMA protocol in LEO-MSSs | p. 217 |
| PRMA with Hindering States (PRMA-HS) | p. 219 |
| Modified PRMA (MPRMA) | p. 219 |
| DRAMA protocol | p. 220 |
| Performance comparisons | p. 223 |
| Analytical Methods for RRM Analysis and Final Considerations on RRM Techniques | p. 227 |
| Stability study of packet access schemes | p. 227 |
| Analysis of Round Robin traffic scheduling | p. 234 |
| 2-MMPP traffic delay analysis | p. 238 |
| Lessons learned on RRM strategies | p. 241 |
| A First Solution Towards the Mobile Internet: the WAP Protocol | p. 245 |
| Introduction to WAP | p. 245 |
| WAP architecture | p. 246 |
| WAP protocol stack | p. 249 |
| Bearers for WAP on the air interface | p. 251 |
| Tools and applications for WAP | p. 252 |
| The Mobile Internet | p. 257 |
| IP and mobility | p. 257 |
| Mobile IP | p. 258 |
| Micro-mobility and the Cellular IP approach | p. 259 |
| Wireless TCP | p. 263 |
| Mechanisms for improving wireless TCP performance on error-prone channels | p. 264 |
| End-to-end approach | p. 265 |
| Split-connection approach | p. 266 |
| Link layer approach | p. 266 |
| A final comparison | p. 267 |
| References | p. 269 |
| Book Index | p. 283 |
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