Electrical Engineering Mobile and Personal Communication Services and Systems A volume in the IEEE Press Series on Digital and Mobile Communication John B. Anderson, Series Editor Mobile and Personal Communication Services and Systems provides a broad systems overview combined with carefully selected technical details for a clear understanding of the basic technology, architecture, and applications associated with mobile communications. In this book’s discussion of mobile telephone, data, and multimedia services, Raj Pandya—international expert in emerging mobile networks and standards—guides telecommunications professionals and students through the past, present, and future of mobile and personal communication systems. He explains how the evolution toward next generation systems will shape tomorrow’s mobile communications industry. This book provides valuable information on numbering, identities, and performance benchmarks to help you plan and design mobile systems and networks. A timely discussion of underlying regional and international standards summarizes influences at work in the industry today. Moreover, you will gain insight into the future direction of mobile and personal communications from an in-depth analysis of:
International Mobile Telecommunications—2000 (IMT-2000)
Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS)
Universal Personal Telecommunications (UPT)
Mobile Data Communications
The outlook for the evolution of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). IS-136, and IS-95
Mobile and Personal Communication Services and Systems is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what lies ahead for this rapidly evolving technology.
About the Author
About the Author Raj Pandya worked in the Systems Engineering Division of Bell-Northern Research and Nortel Networks for over 20 years. His research activities during this period included teletraffic modeling of telecommunication systems and networks, mobile network modeling and performance, and Personal Communication Services. Dr. Pandya is a consultant on mobile communications, with primary focus on Network Standards for IMT-2000, the international standard for the next generation mobile communications system specified by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). He is chairman of Working Party 3 in the ITU-T Study Group 11 responsible for developing signal requirements for IMT-2000. He is also the program manager for IMT-2000 network related studies in ITU-T.
