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| Foreword | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| This is Still Not a Book for Scientists! | |
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| The Practical Approach | |
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| Keep the Originals! | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| This is Not a Book for Scientists | |
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| The Practical Approach | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Second Edition | |
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| First Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Overview of Cellular Systems | |
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| Mobile Telephony | |
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| Introduction to GSM | |
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| Universal Mobile Telecommunication System | |
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| Introduction to HSPA | |
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| Modulation | |
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| Advanced Antenna Systems for HSPA + and LTE | |
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| Short Introduction to LTE | |
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| Indoor Radio Planning | |
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| Why is In-building Coverage Important? | |
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| Indoor Coverage from the Macro Layer | |
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| The Indoor UMTS/HSPA Challenge | |
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| Common UMTS Rollout Mistakes | |
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| The Basics of Indoor RF Planning | |
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| Distributed Antenna Systems | |
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| What Type of Distributed Antenna System is Best? | |
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| Passive Components | |
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| The Passive DAS | |
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| Active DAS | |
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| Hybrid Active DAS Solutions | |
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| Other Hybrid DAS Solutions | |
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| Indoor DAS for MIMO Applications | |
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| Using Repeaters for Indoor DAS Coverage | |
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| Repeaters for Rail Solutions | |
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| Designing with Pico and Femtocells | |
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| Active DAS Data | |
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| Electromagnetic Radiation, EMR | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Designing Indoor DAS Solutions | |
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| The Indoor Planning Procedure | |
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| The RF Design Process | |
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| Designing the Optimum Indoor Solution | |
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| Indoor Design Strategy | |
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| Handover Considerations Inside Buildings | |
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| Elevator Coverage | |
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| Multioperator Systems | |
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| Co-existence Issues for GSM/UMTS | |
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| Co-existence Issues for UMTS/UMTS | |
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| Multioperator Requirements | |
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| Traffic Dimensioning | |
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| Erlang, the Traffic Measurement | |
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| Noise | |
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| Noise Fundamentals | |
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| Cascaded Noise | |
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| Noise Power | |
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| Noise Power from Parallel Systems | |
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| Noise Control | |
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| Updating a Passive DAS from 2G to 3G | |
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| The Link Budget | |
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| The Components and Calculations of the RF Link | |
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| Tools for Indoor Radio Planning | |
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| Live and Learn | |
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| Diagram Tools | |
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| Radio Survey Tools | |
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| The Simple Tools and Tips | |
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| Tools for Link Budget Calculations | |
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| Tools for Indoor Predications | |
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| The Advanced Toolkit (RF-vu from iBwave.com) | |
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| Optimizing the Radio Resource Management Parameters on Node B When Interfacing to an Active DAS, BDA, LNA or TMA | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Impact of DL Power Offset | |
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| Impact of Noise Power | |
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| Delay of the Active DAS | |
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| Impact of External Noise Power | |
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| Tunnel Radio Planning | |
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| The Typical Tunnel Solution | |
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| The Tunnel HO Zone | |
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| Covering Tunnels with Antennas | |
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| Radiating Cable Solutions | |
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| Tunnel Solutions, Cascaded BDAs | |
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| Tunnel Solutions, T-Systems | |
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| Handover Design inside Tunnels | |
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| Redundancy in Tunnel Coverage Solutions | |
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| Sector Strategy for Larger Metro Tunnel Projects | |
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| RF Test Specifications of Tunnel Projects | |
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| Timing Issues in DAS for Tunnels | |
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| Covering Indoor Users From the Outdoor Network | |
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| The Challenges of Reaching Indoor Users From the Macro Network | |
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| Micro Cell Capacity | |
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| ODAS -Outdoor Distributed Antenna Systems | |
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| Digital Distribution of DAS | |
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| High Speed Rail Solutions | |
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| References | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Reference Material | |
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| Index | |