Overview
Main description
Crash course in wireless telecom
Need a jargon-free explanation of how wireless telecommunications work, with an emphasis on the design and management of systems? You’ll find it in Paul Bedell’s Wireless Crash Course. This guide provides everything you need to understand the basic working of wireless, its technology and markets. You get a crystal-clear introduction to basic concepts like radio frequency (RF), cell sites, and switching, and insight into issues such as site acquisition, tower selection and construction, design of the fixed network (a.k.a the "backhaul"), and interconnection to the Public Switched Telephone Network. The expert author carefully delineates the complex regulatory processes that affect all wireless service providers. This A to Z treatment of every major feature of wireless explains both coming wireless internet access (WAP, Bluetooth, wireless data, etc.) and wireless broadband access (LMDS, MMDS) and their prospects in the marketplace.
Table of contents
Chapter 1: History of Radio Communications. Chapter 2: Cellular Market Regulatory Structure. Chapter 3: Fundamental Wireless System Design and Components. Chapter 4: The Cell Base Station. Chapter 5: Radio-Frequency Channelization. Chapter 6: Radio-Frequency Propagation. Chapter 7: Wireless Communication System Towers. Chapter 8: Antennas and Radio-Frequency Power. Chapter 9: Base Station Equipment and Radio-Frequency Signal Flow. Chapter 10: Wireless System Capacity Engineering. Chapter 11: Cellular Regulatory Processes. Chapter 12: Enhancers and Microcells. Chapter 13: Design Tools and Testing Methods. Chapter 14: The Mobile Switching Center. Chapter 15: The N-AMPS Standard. Chapter 16: The Fixed Network and System Connectivity. Chapter 17: Microwave Radio Systems. Chapter 18: Wireless Interconnection to the Public Switched Telephone Network. Chapter 19: Cellular Call Processing. Chapter 20: Roaming and Intercarrier Networking. Chapter 21: Wireless Fraud. Chapter 22: Digital Wireless Technologies. Chapter 23: Personal Communication Services. Chapter 24: Wireless Data Technologies. Chapter 24: Commercial and Business Issues. Chapter 26: Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio. Chapter 27: Satellite PCS Systems. Chapter 28: Broadband Technologies. Chapter 29: The Future of Wireless Telephony.
Author comments
Paul Bedell (Rosemont, IL) is currently Manager of Data Network Planning and Engineering for SBC/Ameritech Communications. Previously he designed and engineered fixed and interconnected networks geographically covering over 65% of the US as a Network Engineer with U.S. Cellular.
