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GSM : architecture, protocols and services

"With around 3 billion subscribers, GSM is the world's most commonly used technology for wireless communication. Providing an overview of the innovations that have fuelled this phenomena, GSM: Architecture, Protocols and Services, Third Edition offers a clear introduction to the field of cellular systems. Special emphasis is placed on system architecture and protocol aspects, and topics range from addressing concepts through mobility management to network management. This third edition contains around 25% new and reworked material and has been thoroughly updated to encompass recent advances and future trends. It serves as both an introductory textbook for graduate students as well as a reference resource for telecommunications engineers and researchers"--Resource description page
eBook, English, 2009
3rd ed., English lang. ed View all formats and editions
Wiley, Chichester, U.K., 2009
1 online resource (ix, 326 pages) : illustrations
9780470741726, 9780470741719, 0470741724, 0470741716
313750564
1. Introduction
2. The mobile radio channel and the cellular principle
3. System architecture and addressing
4. Air interface
physical layer
5. Protocols
6. Roaming and handover
7. Services
8. Improved data services in GSM: GPRS, HSCSD, and EDGE
9. Beyond GSM and UMTS: 4G
A. Data Communication and Networking
B. Aspects of Network Operation
C. GSM Address
D. List of Acroynms
Prev. ed.: GSM switching, services, and protocols, 2001