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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Overview | |
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| System Description | |
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| Historical Perspective | |
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| Systems Engineering and the Role of the Systems Engineer | |
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| The Radio Link | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Transmitting and Receiving Electromagnetic Waves | |
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| Isotropic Radiation | |
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| Antenna Radiation Patterns | |
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| The Range Equation | |
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| Thermal Noise and Receiver Analysis | |
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| Optimizing the Energy Transmission System | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Channel Characteristics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Macroscopic Models 1: Reflection from the Earth�s Surface | |
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| Macroscopic Models 2: Empirical Models | |
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| Macroscopic Models 3: Log-Normal Shadowing | |
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| Microscopic Models 1: Multipath Propagation and Fading | |
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| Microscopic Models 2: Statistical Models for Multipath Propagation | |
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| Microscopic Models 3: A Two-Ray Model with a Moving Receiver | |
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| Microscopic Models 4: A Statistical Model with a Moving Receiver | |
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| Area Coverage | |
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| The Link Budget | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Radio Frequency Coverage: Systems Engineering and Design | |
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| Motivation | |
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| Requirements Assessment and System Architecture | |
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| Cellular Concepts | |
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| Estimation of Interference Levels | |
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| Cellular System Planning and Engineering | |
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| Operational Considerations | |
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| Traffic Engineering, Trunking, and Grade of Service | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Digital Signaling Principles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Carrier-Based Signaling | |
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| Spread-Spectrum Signaling | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Access Methods | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Channel Access in Cellular Systems | |
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| Frequency-Division Multiple Access | |
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| Time-Division Multiple Access | |
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| Code-Division Multiple Access | |
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| Contention-Based Multiple Access | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Information Sources | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Information Sources and Their Characterization | |
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| Digitization of Speech Signals | |
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| Coding for Error Correction | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Problems | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Looking Backward | |
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| Contemporary Systems and 3G Evolution | |
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| OFDM: An Architecture for the Fourth Generation | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Statistical Functions and Tables | |
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| The Normal Distribution | |
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| Function Tables | |
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| Traffic Engineering | |
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| Grade of Service and the State of the Switch | |
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| A Model for Call Arrivals | |
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| A Model for Holding Time | |
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| The Switch State Probabilities | |
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| Blocking Probability, Offered Load, and Erlang B | |
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| Computational Techniques for the Erlang B Formula | |
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| Erlang B Table | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Index | |